TY  - SER
AU  - Schroeder, Sissel
AU  -  White, A. J.
TI  - Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States
SN  - 0084-6570
PB  - Annual Review of Anthropology
KW  -  Archaeology
KW  -  Mississippian Culture
KW  -  Proxy Records
KW  - Climate Change
N2  - The investigation of dynamic fully integrated cultural-environmental systems is one grand challenge facing archaeologists in this century. In the Midwest and Southeast United States, archaeologists recently increased their study of Mississippian social systems (ca. AD 1000-1600) in relationship to paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental data. Significant differences in chronological control between archaeological chronologies and paleoenvironmental records pose challenges to the study of cultural-environmental systems in this region and often result in equifinal results. Three major lines of paleoenvironmental records are reviewed: bald cypress tree-ring records, the Living Blended Drought Atlas (LBDA), and lake-bottom sediment cores. The strongest approaches include local and regional multiproxy environmental records from the same location as a well-investigated archaeological site(s) or region(s). In the rare case where the cores also encode a regional population history, it may be possible to develop stronger inferences that consider variation within and between communities and their vulnerability to climate change and environmental catastrophes
UR  - https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110206
ER  -