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Rapid Postglacial Shoreline Changes in the Western Gulf of Maine and the Paleo-Indian Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert N. Oldale
Robert N. Oldale*
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543
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Abstract

Rapid shoreline regression and transgression along the western Gulf of Maine between 13,000 and 9000 years B.P. are inferred to have produced a nearshore marine environment low in biologic productivity. Paleo-Indians living near the coast of the Gulf were probably forced to rely on nonmarine resources landward of the late-glacial marine limit. Thus, Paleo-Indian sites of the time period in question may be restricted in the region between the marine limit and the postglacial low sea-level stand, or may be altogether absent.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 145 - 150
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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