TY - JOUR
T1 - The Keystone Dune Site
T2 - A Bølling-Allerød Hunting Camp in Eastern Beringia
AU - Lanoë, François B.
AU - Reuther, Joshua D.
AU - Holloway, Caitlin R.
AU - Holmes, Charles E.
AU - Kielhofer, Jennifer R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding was provided by National Science Foundation grants to Francois Lanoë and Mary Stiner (BCS-1504654) and Joshua Reuther and Vance Holliday (PLR-1107631), the School of Anthropology and Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute of the University of Arizona, and the Otto William Geist Fund at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
Funding Information:
was provided by National Science Foundation grants to Francois Lanoë and Mary Stiner (BCS-1504654) and Joshua Reuther and Vance Holliday (PLR-1107631), the School of Anthropology and Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute of the University of Arizona, and the Otto William Geist Fund at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. This research was conducted through several field permits issued to Holmes and Reuther since 2008 by the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office. Barbara Crass provided logistical support for many years of fieldwork. Volunteer crew members at KDS included Benjamin Bellorado, Amy Clark, Matthew Pailes, David Plaskett, Ismael Sanchez Morales and Meredith Wismer. Cassidy Phillips digitized some of the field documents. Dr Link Olson and Aaron Gunderson facilitated access to comparative collections at the Department of Mammalogy of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. We would like to recognize the research at and near KDS by Cultural Resources Consultants LLC (Michael Yarborough, Sarah Meitl, Aubrey Morrison, and Jason Rogers). We would like to thank Cultural Resources Consultants LLC, as well as Richard Vanderhoek of the Office of History and Archaeology for discussions on previous work in the Shaw Creek Flats; as well as the three anonymous reviewers whose comments greatly improved this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Center for the Study of the First Americans.
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - The Keystone Dune site, in central Alaska, contains a well-preserved archaeological occupation that dates to 13,430–13,230 cal yr BP. Archaeological excavations resulted in the recovery of features, and materials include hearths, faunal and lithic specimens, macrobotanical remains, and ocher. These were analyzed and interpreted to reconstruct past activities conducted at the site. Keystone Dune was most likely used for a short time, in the context of a wapiti hunt, and can be placed within a larger economic and mobility system of eastern Beringian people during the Bølling-Allerød chronozone. By continuing to document the archaeological and paleoenvironmental records of the early Beringians, we contribute to a refinement of the models and ideas of human dispersal during the Pleistocene.
AB - The Keystone Dune site, in central Alaska, contains a well-preserved archaeological occupation that dates to 13,430–13,230 cal yr BP. Archaeological excavations resulted in the recovery of features, and materials include hearths, faunal and lithic specimens, macrobotanical remains, and ocher. These were analyzed and interpreted to reconstruct past activities conducted at the site. Keystone Dune was most likely used for a short time, in the context of a wapiti hunt, and can be placed within a larger economic and mobility system of eastern Beringian people during the Bølling-Allerød chronozone. By continuing to document the archaeological and paleoenvironmental records of the early Beringians, we contribute to a refinement of the models and ideas of human dispersal during the Pleistocene.
KW - Alaska
KW - Eastern Beringian tradition
KW - hunting camp
KW - Tanana valley
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U2 - 10.1080/20555563.2018.1460046
DO - 10.1080/20555563.2018.1460046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050743607
SN - 2055-5563
VL - 4
SP - 151
EP - 161
JO - PaleoAmerica
JF - PaleoAmerica
IS - 2
ER -