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Volume 75 - April 2010

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  • Volatile Climate Conditions Cahokia: Comment on Benson, Pauketat and Cook 2009

  • Kevin C. Nolan, Robert A. Cook
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 January 2017, pp. 978-983

  • The rapidly growing archaeological literature on Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) reconstructions (e.g., Benson et al. 2007; Cooper 2008; Stahle et al. 2007) demonstrates the significant gains that can be made in explaining cultural developments in prehistory when appropriate climate data are available. Benson et al. (2009) added to this literature with an analysis of the climatic conditions associated with peak social complexity in the American Bottom. They focus on abundance of precipitation. We applaud their effort and offer an additional perspective on the development of social complexity using the same data, by highlighting the importance of variability in conditioning complexity.

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  • AAQ volume 75 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    20 January 2017, pp. f1-f4
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  • Reply to Comments of Nolan and Cook

  • Larry V. Benson, Timothy R. Pauketat, Edward R. Cook
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    20 January 2017, pp. 984-985

  • The following reply to the comments by Nolan and Cook makes the following points. The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is not a measure of summer rainfall. Cahokia's "Big Bang" dates to the end of the Edelhardt phase and continued through the Lohmann phase. The "American Bottom" refers only to the Mississippi River floodplain in the vicinity of East St. Louis, and the exact nature of human response to climate change cannot be predicted from PDSI data alone.

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