Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’
International audience After decades of debate, the homeland of the First Americans is now generally understood to be northeast Asia; however, the process of Late Pleistocene peopling remains unresolved. As more archaeological sites south of the continental ice sheets are discovered that predate the...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-03780826v1 2024-02-27T08:46:15+00:00 Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’ White, John Henry, Auréade Kuehn, Stephen Loso, Michael Rasic, Jeffrey Center for the Study of the First Americans Texas A&M University College Station (TAMU) Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM) Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences Concord University Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve 2022-09 https://hal.science/hal-03780826 https://hal.science/hal-03780826/document https://hal.science/hal-03780826/file/1-s2.0-S1040618222002749-main.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.08.012 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.08.012 hal-03780826 https://hal.science/hal-03780826 https://hal.science/hal-03780826/document https://hal.science/hal-03780826/file/1-s2.0-S1040618222002749-main.pdf doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2022.08.012 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1040-6182 Quaternary International https://hal.science/hal-03780826 Quaternary International, In press, ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2022.08.012⟩ [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2022 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.08.012 2024-01-28T01:08:07Z International audience After decades of debate, the homeland of the First Americans is now generally understood to be northeast Asia; however, the process of Late Pleistocene peopling remains unresolved. As more archaeological sites south of the continental ice sheets are discovered that predate the opening of the interior “ice-free” corridor, interest in a coastal Pacific dispersal route has grown, and previously overlooked regions proximal to the Pacific coast have become a central focus of exploration efforts. The Copper River basin of southern Alaska is one such region. Here we present the results of 2019 archaeological excavations at Nataeł Na’, a buried and stratified archaeological site situated along the upper Copper River. The site contains a robust occupation dating to the late Younger Dryas climate reversal as well as an earlier occupation dating to the late Allerød interstadial. This discovery demonstrates that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers inhabited the Pacific basin of southern Alaska during the same time Clovis peoples inhabited temperate North America. The occupations at Nataeł Na’ join a growing body of evidence suggesting that the early inhabitants of eastern Beringia were geographically more widely dispersed than previously documented. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alaska Beringia Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Pacific Quaternary International 640 23 43 |
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International audience After decades of debate, the homeland of the First Americans is now generally understood to be northeast Asia; however, the process of Late Pleistocene peopling remains unresolved. As more archaeological sites south of the continental ice sheets are discovered that predate the opening of the interior “ice-free” corridor, interest in a coastal Pacific dispersal route has grown, and previously overlooked regions proximal to the Pacific coast have become a central focus of exploration efforts. The Copper River basin of southern Alaska is one such region. Here we present the results of 2019 archaeological excavations at Nataeł Na’, a buried and stratified archaeological site situated along the upper Copper River. The site contains a robust occupation dating to the late Younger Dryas climate reversal as well as an earlier occupation dating to the late Allerød interstadial. This discovery demonstrates that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers inhabited the Pacific basin of southern Alaska during the same time Clovis peoples inhabited temperate North America. The occupations at Nataeł Na’ join a growing body of evidence suggesting that the early inhabitants of eastern Beringia were geographically more widely dispersed than previously documented. |
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Center for the Study of the First Americans Texas A&M University College Station (TAMU) Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM) Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences Concord University Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve |
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Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’ |
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Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’ |
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Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’ |
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Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’ |
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Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’ |
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terminal pleistocene human occupation of the upper copper river basin, southern alaska: results of test excavations at nataeł na’ |
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