Description
Book SynopsisConsiders the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast. In Megadrought in the Carolinas, John Cable demonstrates through the application of innovative ceramic analysis that a fifteenth-century abandonment event took place across an area of some 34.5 million acres centered on the South Carolina coast.
Trade ReviewQuestions concerning regional abandonment and migration of agricultural societies loom large throughout all of North America. Cable has provided the first book-length topic on this issue as it applies to anywhere in eastern North America, and it will clearly set the tone for future efforts along these lines in the Southeast." - Charles R. Cobb, author
of From Quarry to Cornfield: The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe ProductionTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Central South Carolina Coast: At the Margins of South Appalachian Mississippian Interaction
- 2. A Model of Ceramic Change for the Eastern Wing of South Appalachian Mississippian
- 3. The Fifteenth-Century Depopulation of the Central South Carolina Coast
- 4. The Cultural and Natural Geography of Megadrought
- 5. Regions of the Greater Desert of Ocute
- 6. Migration to the Ring of Drought Resilience
- 7. Drought-Related Indigenous Disease Epidemics
- 8. The Broader Implications of Late Prehistoric Societal Collapse and Transformation in the Southern Latitudes of the United States during an Age of Global Warming
- References
- Index
