Task-Specific Sites and Paleoindian Landscape Use in the Shaw Creek Flats, Alaska

• Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
• Main Authors: Lanoë, François B., Reuther, Joshua D., Holmes, Charles E.
• Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Sch Anthropol
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SPRINGER 2018
• Subjects: Mobility; Landscape; Paleoindian; Beringia; Swan Point; The Flats; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/628651; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9360-0

The Shaw Creek Flats and nearby middle Tanana river, in central Alaska, constitute one of the areas in the Americas with the densest known distribution of Late Glacial (about 14,500-11,700 cal. B.P.) archaeological sites. Local high rates of sediment deposition and low post-depositional disturbance...