Late Quaternary loess stratigraphy, soils, and environments of the Shaw Creek Flats Paleoindian sites, Tanana Valley, Alaska

• Main Author: Dilley, Thomas Edward, 1959-
• Other Authors: Haynes, C. Vance, Jr.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Arizona. 1998
• Subjects: Anthropology; Archaeology; Geology; Paleoecology; Parkland; Swan Point; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282635

The late Quaternary stratigraphy of three Paleoindian archaeological sites, located on the edge of Shaw Creek Flats in the middle Tanana Valley, Alaska, consist of up to 2 meters of calcareous eolian sand, loess, and buried paleosols. Two Paleoindian occupations at the Broken Mammoth, Swan Point, an...