essay
Human adaptation at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary (circa 13,000 to 8,000 BP) in eastern Beringia
humans at the end of the ice age : the archaeology of the pleistocene-holocene transition • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: 255-276
By: Yesner, David Raymond.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document focuses on the Broken Mammoth site in the Tanana River Valley, Alaska that dates from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene. The stratum labeled Cultural Zone 4 dates to the Early Paleo-Indian tradition. The author describes the site, the faunal assemblages and how they change over time, the paleoenvironment as indicated by the faunal data, and some of the tools found. Broken Mammoth is compared to other sites within Alaska and western Yukon from the same general time period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Land use
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Paleo-Indian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- New World
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- New World
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 11,800-9300 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tanana River Valley, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David R. Yesner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-276)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96008914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians