McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2013, we began working at the McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes sites, located in the Tanana Flats area of central Alaska about 30 miles south of Fairbanks. Both sites contain multiple cultural components, representing human occupation from about 14,000 to 1000 BP. Preservation is excellent in these contexts with thousands of lithic artifacts, osseous materials, faunal remains, and paleoethnobotanical remains. In this poster symposium, we present current results of our interdisciplinary efforts, including stratigraphy, radiocarbon and IRSL chronology, site formation, soil micromorphology, lithic technological and raw material studies, zooarchaeological studies, paleoethnobotanical analyses, site-spatial analyses, and eDNA work.