Climate change, resilience, and the Native American Fisher-hunter-gatherers of the late Holocene on the Georgia coast, USA

The Georgia Coast of the eastern United States boasts some largest and spatially complex Late Archaic sites in North America, with most famous these being shell rings. ring village phenomenon its larger ceremonial landscapes did not, however, last throughout Archaic. Climate shifts that led to local relative sea level change area at around 3800 cal. BP appears have resulted conditions suppressed shellfish productivity ultimately uneven abandonment sites. Our understanding changes along is limited by fact much research focuses exclusively on large midden Investigations several terminal demonstrate continuity size occupations compared earlier (i.e., rings), demonstrating a socio-ecological resiliency small-scale societies. We argue that, contrary narratives collapsing systems, was time when displaced communities coalesced forged new community bonds wake shifting resource base.