Recent Discoveries in the Tanana Basin, Eastern Beringia

Summary

Recent developments in Western subarctic archaeology have transformed our perspectives on technological, subsistence, and land use strategies implemented during the Pleistocene - Holocene transition and into the later Holocene. This talk encompasses my intersite and intrasite investigations at Upward Sun River, Mead, and other sites in the middle Tanana River basin geared towards explanatory model construction and testing. Athabaskan ethnographic data provide robust frameworks to evaluate the earlier prehistoric record. Results indicate surprising levels of connectivity between ancient and recent lifeways in the subarctic. Significant differences suggest changing responses to risk and the importance of social contexts of site structure and organization and regional land use.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Current Problems in Arctic Research

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