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Late Holocene Sea-Level Oscillations in Mobile Bay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nicholas H. Holmes Jr.  and
E. Bruce Trickey
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Abstract

An archeological chronology for the region of Mobile Bay, Alabama was first worked out by Trickey in 1958 (Trickey 1958). Systematic excavations and radiocarbon dating now suggest that Indian sites, marked by shell middens and artifacts, were periodically overwhelmed by rise in water level and then re-occupied during each succeeding state of low sea level. Middens are dated at 4100, 3090, 2040 and 1080 B.P.

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Reports
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American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 122 - 124
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

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