Megadrought in the Carolinas: The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence

Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast

A prevailing enigma in American archaeology is why vast swaths of land in the Southeast and Southwest were abandoned between AD 1200 and 1500. The most well-known abandonments occurred in the Four Corners and Mimbres areas of the Southwest and the central Mississippi valley in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and in southern Arizona and the Ohio Valley during the fifteenth century. In Megadrought in the Carolinas: Th...