Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session collects posters related to the archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands (SY-AB). The SY-AB is here defined as the region north and south of the Alaska Highway and east and west of the international border for about 100 km. It encompasses the highway corridor from the north end of Kluane Lake, Yukon, to the Tanacross, Alaska, regions, with the Wellesley Basin/Yukon-Tanana uplands to the north and the St. Elias–Wrangell Mountain range to the south. It includes Pleistocene southeast Beringia glaciations and fauna, and sites of human occupation in the Allerød and Younger Dryas through the Holocene and historic periods. The posters focus on detailed presentations of quantitative data such as collections of radiocarbon dates and statistical summaries of artifact and fauna inventories, or any topic that is enhanced by consideration of graphical representations. A related presentation symposium is also scheduled (Session ID: 5937).

Other Keywords
Chronology • Beringia • Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Zooarchaeology • Survey • Microblade Technology • Settlement patterns • Paleolithic • arctic • Material Culture and Technology

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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  • Archaeological Sites of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands: Distribution, Chronology, and Dineh Place Names (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ching Yi Chan. Norman Easton. Robert Sattler.

    This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster will map out selected archaeological sites of the SY-AB and provide a table of associated radiocarbon dates calibrated to the most recent IntCal 20. Human occupation of what was then extreme southeastern Beringia begins in the Allerød interstadial (ca. 14.2 to 12.9 Kya) demonstrated at Little John and...

  • Radiocarbon Dates and a Proposed Cultural Chronology for Little John (KdVo-6), a Multicomponent Site in Eastern Beringia, Yukon Territory, Canada (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Norman Easton.

    This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Little John site (Borden #KdVo-6) holds a sequential record of human occupation from the Allerød through to the present day, including early and later expressions of the Chindadn complex, the Denali complex, the Northern Archaic tradition, the Late Prehistoric/Dene, the Contact Transitional of the nineteenth and...

  • Systematic Data Recovery at Archaeological Sites in the McIntyre Creek Valley, Whitehorse, Yukon (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawson Beaulieu. Mark Young.

    This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents on the preliminary findings of systematic data recovery excavations at several archaeological sites within the city of Whitehorse, Yukon. These sites tentatively include JeUs-42, JeUs-43, and JeUs-96. Excavations were undertaken by Stantec during the 2023 field season; one site was partially...

  • Taiy Tsadlh (Six Mile Hill) Site Evaluations (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Esdale. Heather Hardy. Whitney McLaren.

    This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taiy Tsadlh or Six Mile Hill has been used since prehistoric times for a variety of activities, ranging from recreation, a military fuel terminal, ceremony, subsistence, and game spotting. Archaeological investigations have revealed six extensive prehistoric sites further documenting the rich history of the area. Lithic...

  • Taxonomy and Taphonomy of Beringian Flora and Fauna from the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands with Reference to the Little John Site (KdVo-6), Yukon, Canada (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Vance Hutchinson. Norman Easton. Mavis Chan.

    This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands (SY-AB) is geographically coincident with the southeastern extent of Pleistocene Beringia. This unglaciated land mass formed a unique refugium along the northwestern margins of the Cordilleran ice cap to the east and south and the Brooks Range glacial mass to the north. This poster...