Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For decades, research in Alaska has been a cornerstone for our understanding of the late Pleistocene and Holocene peopling of Beringia, Siberia, and the Americas. Recent focus on a period of human isolation, called the Beringian Standstill Hypothesis, for example, has been supported almost entirely by work done in the state. Additionally, regional studies in the state focused on the movement of people and technologies during the Holocene encompassing sites from areas as large as most states. This session includes papers dedicated to current studies in Alaska with emphasis on prehistory, paleoecology, and human-environment interaction.

Other Keywords
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Lithic Analysis • arctic • Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers • Geoarchaeology • ancient DNA • Environment and Climate  • Chronology • Zooarchaeology • Dating Techniques

Geographic Keywords
Alberta (State / Territory) • Yukon Territory (State / Territory) • British Columbia (State / Territory) • Alaska (State / Territory) • Saskatchewan (State / Territory) • Manitoba (State / Territory) • Canada (Country) • Northwest Territories (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • North America: Arctic and Subarctic

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  1. Adding to the Paleoenvironmental Framework for Early Settlement of Interior Alaska: New Perspectives on Local Changes in Vegetation and Hydrology from Plant Wax N-Alkanes (2023)
  2. Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska (2023)
  3. Assessment of the Archaeological Record for the Tanana Valley, Alaska, and a New Cultural Synthesis (2023)
  4. Bluefish Caves Revisited: Testing a Potential Pre-Clovis Site in Eastern Beringia (2023)
  5. The Carpenter Quarry Site: A Unique Salvage Excavation Strategy (2023)
  6. Ethnoarchaeological Exploration of the Western Brooks Range, Alaska (2023)
  7. Freshwater and Anadromous Fishing in Ice Age Beringia (2023)
  8. The Hess Creek Site and Implications for Livengood and Yukon River Archaeology (2023)
  9. Late Pleistocene Technological Organization at Shég’ Xdaltth’í’, Central Alaska (2023)
  10. The Porcupine Tail Site Complex and the Concentration of the Archaeological Record on Isolated Hills of Interior Alaska (2023)
  11. Site Stratigraphy and Radiocarbon Dating at the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ Site in Central Alaska (2023)
  12. Sixty Years of Research at the Donnelly Ridge Site (2023)
  13. Technological Origins of the Denali Complex (2023)
  14. Terminal Pleistocene Human Occupations in the North Pacific Basin of Alaska: Results and Implications of Test Excavation at Nataeł Na’ (2023)