BACKGROUND
 

The Coastal Adaptation Bioarchaeology Project was formally inaugurated in 1996, but began with earlier collaborative efforts with several researchers interested in prehistoric human use of coastal areas.The early work was primarily conducted with Clark Spencer Larsen and his research team (including Christopher B. Ruff, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Mark Teaford) on the La Florida Bioarchaeology Project, which focused on the Georgia coast south to the northern Florida Atlantic coast.

 

Later investigations directed by myself have concentrated on the North Carolina coast and Gulf coast Florida, and have been conducted in collaboration with Lynette Norr and Mark Teaford and my graduate students.Our research has been centered around prehistoric human use of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and the resulting nutritional, biomechanical, and disease outcomes experienced by human populations living on those coasts.We have studied extant museum collections of human skeletal remains; no new exhumation of human skeletal remains have been inaugurated by our project.Among the issues we have addressed are:
 

!Did coastal resources provide a reliable and steady diet through time?

!When agricultural products were incorporated into existing foraging diets, were they adopted differently in coastal populations than they were for interior populations?

!Can we make specific generalizations about coastal adaptation?

 
 

GRANT SUPPORT FOR OUR RESEARCH

 

East Carolina University Research and Creative Activities grant for determination of human diet on the Florida Gulf Coast (Hutchinson; 1994)

 

Margaret Cullinan Wray grant for determination of human diet on the Florida Gulf Coast (Hutchinson and Norr; 1990)

 

National Science Foundation (SBR 9707921) study of human skeletal remains of inner and outer coastal populations in North Carolina and coastal populations in Gulf Coast Florida (Hutchinson PI, Lynette Norr and Mark Teaford, co-PI=s; 1997-2000)

 
 

PUBLICATIONS RESULTING FROM OUR RESEARCH ON THIS AND RELATED PROJECTS:

 

ARTICLES
 

Hutchinson, Dale L.(2002) Osteological Analysis of the Aqui Esta Population.The Florida Anthropologist, Publication No. 15, pp. 183-193.

 

Hutchinson, Dale L. (1993)Analysis of Skeletal Remains from the Tierra Verde Site, Pinellas County, West-Central Florida.The Florida Anthropologist 46:263-276.
 

Hutchinson, Dale L. (1993)Treponematosis in Regional and Chronological Perspective from Central Gulf Coast Florida.American Journal of Physical Anthropology 92:249-261.
 

 

Hutchinson, Dale L., and Jeffrey M. Mitchem (1996)The Weeki Wachee Mound, An Early Contact Mortuary Locality in Hernando County, West-Central Florida.Southeastern Archaeology 15(1):47-65. 
 

 

Hutchinson, Dale L., Clark Spencer Larsen, Margaret J. Schoeninger, and Lynette Norr (1998)Regional Variation in the Pattern of Maize Adoption and Use in Florida and Georgia.American Antiquity 63:397-416.
 
 

BOOKS
 

 

Hutchinson, Dale L.(2004)Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast: Continuity, Conflict, and Change.Ripley P. Bullen Series, University of Florida Press (with contributions by Lynette Norr and Mark Teaford).
 

Hutchinson, Dale L.(2002)Foraging, Farming, and Late Prehistoric Coastal Adaptation in North Carolina.Ripley P. Bullen Series, University of Florida Press (with contributions by Ann Kakaliouras, Lynette Norr and Mark Teaford)..
 
 

CHAPTERS
 

Dale L. Hutchinson (1999)Skeletal Remains.In Archaeological Excavations at Hammocks Beach West (31ON665): A Woodland Shell-Midden on the North Carolina Coast, by I. Randolph Daniel, pp. 157-158.Occasional Papers of the Phelps Archaeology Laboratory No. 1, Greenville, North Carolina.
 

Hutchinson, Dale L. (1999)Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains from Useppa Island, Florida (8LL51).In The Archaeology of Useppa Island, edited by William H. Marquardt.Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, Monograph 3, University of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 139-147.
 

Hutchinson, Dale L. (1992)Prehistoric Human Burials From Buck Key.In Culture and Environment in the Domain of the Calusa, edited by William H. Marquardt, pp. 411-422.Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, Monograph 1
 

Hutchinson, Dale L., and Clark Spencer Larsen (1990)Stress and Lifeway Change on the Georgia Coast: The Evidence from Enamel Hypoplasia.In The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: Biocultural Interpretations of a Population in Transition, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen, pp. 50-65.Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.
 

 

Larsen, Clark Spencer, Dale L. Hutchinson, Margaret J. Schoeninger, and Lynette Norr (2001)Food and Stable Isotopes in La Florida: Diet and Nutrition Before and After Contact.In Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen, pg. 52-81.University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
 

Simpson, Scott W., Dale L. Hutchinson, and Clark Spencer Larsen (1990)Coping With Stress: Tooth Size, Dental Defects, and Adaptation.In The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: Biocultural Interpretations of a Population in Transition, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen, pp. 66-77.Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.
 
 

PAPERS
 

Hutchinson, Dale L., and Clark Spencer Larsen (1987) Stress and Lifeway Change on the Georgia Coast: The Evidence from Enamel Hypoplasia.Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New York.
 

Hutchinson, Dale L., and Lynette Norr (1999)Maize, Midden, and Mollusc: Interpreting Subadult Diet and Pathology in Late Woodland Coastal North Carolina.Paper presented in the invited symposium AInfant Feeding and Nutrition: New Approaches to Childhood Health in Prehistory@ at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland. 
 

Hutchinson, Dale L., and Lynette Norr (1992)Late Historic and Early Historic Diet in Gulf Coast Florida.Paper Presented in the Symposium "The Frontiers of Biocultural Adaptation: A Columbian Quincentenary Symposium," 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Las Vegas.
 

Hutchinson, Dale L., and Lynette Norr (1991)Corn and Subsistence in Central Gulf Coast Florida: the Evidence from Stable Isotope Analysis.Paper Presented in the Symposium "Nutritional Modeling in Archaeological Context," 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
 

 

Hutchinson, Dale L., Lynette Norr, and Mark Teaford (2001)Prehistoric Population Dynamics in Central Gulf Coast Florida.Paper presented in the invited symposium ABeyond Maize and Midden: Bioarchaeological Contributions to Coastal Adaptation@ at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
 

Kakaliouras, Ann, and Dale L. Hutchinson (1999)Cultural and Biological Relationships Between Two Late Woodland Populations on the North Carolina Coastal Plain.Paper presented in the invited symposium ALate Prehistoric Population Dynamics of the mid-Atlantic@ at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland.
 

Kakaliouras, Ann, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Lynette Norr (2001)Biodistance and Regional Subsistence Patterns for the Late Woodland North Carolina Coast.Paper presented in the invited symposium ACoastal Adaptation@ at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Kansas City.
 

Larsen, Clark Spencer, Margaret J. Schoeninger, and Dale L. Hutchinson (1997) Dietary Change in La Florida: Regional Convergence of Subsistence Patterns.Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis.
 

Larsen, Clark Spencer, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Christopher B. Ruff, Mark Teaford, and Dale L. Hutchinson (2001)Going Coastal in the American Southeast: The Case of the Georgia Bight.Paper presented in the invited symposium ABeyond Maize and Midden: Bioarchaeological Contributions to Coastal Adaptation@ at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
 

Larsen, Clark Spencer, Mark Teaford, and Dale L. Hutchinson (2000)Tooth Use and Microwear in Prehistoric North America: The View from Scanning Electron Microscopy.Paper presented in the invited symposium AOld World and New World Perspectives on Bioarchaeology@ at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Antonio.
 

 

CONFERENCE SYMPOSIA
 

Beyond Maize and Midden: Bioarchaeological Contributions to Coastal Adaptation.Organized Symposium at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans
 
 

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
 

Higgenbotham, Lori C. (1999) Gender-Specific Dental Health Problems in Late Prehistoric Populations from the Southeastern Coast.Unpublished M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville.
 
 

FUTURE RESEARCH
 

We continue to investigate the bioarchaeological aspects of coastal adaptation and to compare coastal populations with contemporary populations living in the adjacent interior regions of the study area.