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Social Science Archaeology

Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory

A Glimpse of the Peopling of the New World

by (author) Richard E. Morlan

Publisher
Canadian Museum of History
Initial publish date
Jan 1980
Category
Archaeology
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    ISBN
    9781772820898
    Publish Date
    Jan 1980
    List Price
    $15.99

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The concept of taphonomy has been borrowed from paleontology and applied to the analysis of vertebrate fossils from the Old Crow region of the northern Yukon Territory. By means of this approach, archaeologically significant specimens have been isolated from the larger suite of materials which can be explained entirely in terms of natural processes. The analysis indicates that human occupation began in eastern Beringia more than 50,000 years ago and probably was continuous from that time onward, but primary archaeological deposits will be needed to clarify the historical and paleo-environmental significance of these finds.

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