The environmental evidence obtained from the excavation of Big Hawk Shelter points to an onset of arid conditions in NE Oklahoma, ca. 800 A.C. The economic and cultural development of the prehistoric inhabitants of the shelter, however, do not appear to have been significantly influenced by the climatic change.
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