Human Settlement and Mid-Late Holocene Coastal Environmental Change at Cape Krusenstern, Northwest Alaska

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Anderson, Shelby, Jordon, James, Freeburg, Adam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: PDXScholar 2018
• Subjects: Human ecology; Nature > Effect of human beings on; Paleoecology > Arctic regions; Geomorphology; Cape Krusenstern (Alaska); Archaeological Anthropology; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Cape Krusenstern; Alaska
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anth_fac/175; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.028; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/context/anth_fac/article/1176/viewcontent/Anderson_et_al._in_press_QI_POST_PRINT_Cape_Krusenstern.pdf

Archaeologists hypothesize that mid-late Holocene environmental variability played a role in several significant western Arctic cultural developments including population fluctuations, the evolution of Arctic maritime adaptations, and Arctic-wide migrations. Further evaluation of these hypotheses re...