Geology of the Dry Creek Site; a Stratified Early Man Site in Interior Alaska

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Thorson, Robert M., Hamilton, Thomas D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1977
• Subjects: Arctic; Dry Creek; alaska range; permafrost; Subarctic; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(77)90034-5; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589477900345?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589477900345?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400031811

The Dry Creek archeologic site contains a stratified record of late Pleistocene human occupation in central Alaska. Four archeologic components occur within a sequence of multiple loess and sand layers which together form a 2-m cap above weathered glacial outwash. The two oldest components appear to...