An introduction to texas prehistoric archeology

Prehistory of Texas

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 5-14

  Perttula, Timothy K ^a  

^a Archeological and Environmental Consultants LLC   (United States)

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1. The age spans for the periods presented in Table 1.1 are based on radiocarbon dates that have not been uniformly calibrated, particularly for the oldest radiocarbon dates. Using the most current calibrations (Stuiver et al. 1998) as an example, the onset of the Early Paleoindian period would have taken place about 13,500 calibrated years ago, with the Late Paleoindian period beginning about 11,500 years ago and lasting until ca. 10,000 years ago. In turn, Early Archaic sites would fall into the 10,000-8,000 b.p. interval, and the Middle Archaic into the 8,000-6,000 b.p. interval. J. S. Girard has noted that "although sequences used for eastern and central Texas tend to be later [than in the southeastern United States] ⋯ archaeologists in Texas do not routinely calibrate radiocarbon dates. With calibrations, subdivisions of the Archaic [see Table 1.1] ⋯ would be similar [to the southeastern United States]" (Girard 2000, 8).