Edges

[uniface]

Funny how the most obvious facts are often the last ones to be noticed. In this case, that if you're looking for game animals (= dinner), you're most likely to find them at an edge.

The border between a forest and a meadow is an edge. So is a road cut through a forest. So is a river . . . You get the idea.

Awareness of this is finally showing up when considering Paleo sites (in this case, in Florida) :

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vert...1/clovis99.htm

The heaviest concentrations of Clovis sites occur along the borders between differing ecozones and drainage basins, and range from 75 Km to 250 Km apart (Figure 1). Many Clovis sites once located along natural levees and terraces of coastward river valleys are today inundated. As a result, this distribution may only illustrate a part of the subsistence/settlement strategy practiced by these people. Nevertheless, it seems that Clovis people in Florida did not focus their sites in a single kind of environment, but instead concentrated on areas where the widest diversity of floral and faunal resources could be obtained. For example, exploiting the region between Camel Lake and Lake Louise provides access to 92% of the mammalian species chosen for this study, versus 71% in the Camel Lake region and 46% in the Lake Louise region. There was undoubtedly increased diversity of floral resources along these border lands as well . . .

The very weak presence along the Atlantic Coast emphasizes the Clovis focus on the Gulf of Mexico. Of the six drainage basins bordering the Gulf, Clovis sites are concentrated in the central four. Site concentrations along the borders of drainage basins once again indicate a focus on areas that allowed access to greater diversity of faunal and floral resources. Finally, distinct concentrations in both the Panhandle and near Tampa Bay may suggest the territories of at least two macrobands.

It's part of a lot of stuff on Florida prehistory @
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vert.../aucilla99.htm

[Tnmountains]

Yeah man always hunt the edges. Makes sense to me