Procurement, Reduction, and Use of Lithic Technology from ca. 9500–11,800 Years Ago at Niidhaayh Na’, Central Alaska

IF 1.6 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY PaleoAmerica Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/20555563.2021.1932073

Briana N. Doering, Julie Esdale, Senna D. Catenacci

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The middle Tanana Valley near Fairbanks, Alaska has been the subject of nearly a century of archaeological research focused on the earliest inhabitants of the region. Recent research at Niidhaayh Na’ (XBD-110) provides new information about human behavior and technological organization at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. This multicomponent site is located on the Delta moraine and overlooks Delta Creek (Niidhaayh Na’). The results of the first seasons of full-scale excavation research at the site, begun in 2017, reveal two lithic workshops dating to ca. 11,800 and 9500 calendar years ago, associated with core fragments, tools, debitage, and intact faunal remains. Future research at the site will advance archaeological understandings of human adaptive decision-making during the late glacial period in central Alaska, with implications for our understanding of the first Americans and human behavior more generally.

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阿拉斯加中部Niidhaayh Na约9500 - 11800年前的石器技术的获取、还原和使用

近一个世纪以来，阿拉斯加费尔班克斯附近的塔纳纳山谷中部一直是考古研究的主题，重点是该地区最早的居民。最近在Niidhaayh Na ' (XBD-110)的研究提供了更新世-全新世过渡时期人类行为和技术组织的新信息。这个多组件站点位于三角洲冰碛上，俯瞰三角洲溪(Niidhaayh Na’)。从2017年开始，对该遗址进行了第一季的全面挖掘研究，结果显示，两个石器作坊的历史可以追溯到大约11800年和9500年以前，与核心碎片、工具、碎屑和完整的动物遗骸有关。未来对该遗址的研究将促进对阿拉斯加中部冰期晚期人类适应性决策的考古理解，对我们对第一批美洲人和人类行为的更广泛理解产生影响。

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PaleoAmerica Earth and Planetary Sciences-Paleontology

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期刊介绍： PaleoAmerica disseminates new research results and ideas about early human dispersal and migrations, with a particular focus on the Americas. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialog between archaeologists, geneticists and other scientists investigating the dispersal of modern humans during the late Pleistocene. The journal has three goals: First and foremost, the journal is a vehicle for the presentation of new research results. Second, it includes editorials on special topics written by leaders in the field. Third, the journal solicits essays covering current debates in the field, the state of research in relevant disciplines, and summaries of new research findings in a particular region, for example Beringia, the Eastern Seaboard or the Southern Cone of South America. Although the journal’s focus is the peopling of the Americas, editorials and research essays also highlight the investigation of early human colonization of empty lands in other areas of the world. As techniques are developing so rapidly, work in other regions can be very relevant to the Americas, so the journal will publish research relating to other regions which has relevance to research on the Americas.