Temporal Changes in Obsidian Procurement Strategy during the Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Obsidian Studies of the Old and New Worlds" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Reconstruction of obsidian procurement strategies based on systematic obsidian sourcing analysis in the Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido will provides an important basis for examining several key issues of human evolutionary history, including how modern humans adapted to the cold, harsh environment of the north, and how these adaptations allowed for the possible migration to the Americas. Here we discuss temporal changes in obsidian procurement patterns between the early Upper Paleolithic and the middle Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido. We examine these temporal changes by comparing site-based reconstructions of procurement patterns from two different regions, the Ishikari lowland and the Tokachi plain, where lithic raw material environments are quite different.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Advances in Obsidian Studies of the Old and New Worlds

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Abstract Id(s): 25244