Investigations of the Late Pleistocene occupations at Holzman, Shaw Creek, Interior Alaska

Summary

The Holzman site, discovered in 2015, is roughly one half mile from the confluence of Shaw Creek with the Tanana River in interior Alaska. To date, we have excavated 56m2, revealing repeated occupations beginning in the Bolling-Allerod, and including an occupation in the Younger Dryas. Located near the Broken Mammoth, Mead, and Swan Point late Pleistocene sites, Holzman consists of a local stone flaking station, hearths, and thousands of faunal remains including organic implements on mammoth ivory. This paper reports initial zooarchaeological, lithic, and geochronological analyses placing Holzman in the broader context of the peopling of Alaska and the Americas.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22077