Folks,
I'll be giving a talk for the Greater Elmer Area Historical Society on ice age landscapes and their cultural use. One feature, Broad Pond, was once a pond three-quarters of a mile long. By the 1930s it dried up.
Ancient Climate Change and Cultural Use of Ice Age Landscapes
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I'll be giving a talk for the Greater Elmer Area Historical Society on ice age landscapes and their cultural use. One feature, Broad Pond, was once a pond three-quarters of a mile long. By the 1930s it dried up.
Ancient Climate Change and Cultural Use of Ice Age Landscapes
Thursday, April 17, 2014, 6:30 PM at the Elmer Borough Hall in Elmer
The legacy of frozen ground in southern New Jersey is enriched by adding cultural context to recent studies of the region’s Coastal Plain. Rigorous conditions created a suite of distinct structures. Strong winds from the Ice Sheet sculpted the land through sand deposition and deflation. Climate-related food scarcity would have been a distinct disadvantage to any culture that may have been present at the end of the last glacial period. Later, with conditions stabilizing during the Holocene, blowouts, dunes, springs, and ancient braided river channels were visited more frequently as subsistence activities diversified. Basins called spungs became important watering holes and attracted game animals. Windblown sand patches rimming their southeastern shores become the location of trailheads and campsites. European settlers modified these Indian trails and found closed basins opportune places for refreshment, sites for early taverns, and nucleation points for settlements.
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