Preliminary Analysis of the Fauna from the McDonald Creek Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

McDonald Creek contains identifiable faunal remains from two primary climatic and cultural time periods: (1) a Younger-Dryas aged occupation, and (2) a pre-Clovis aged occupation dating to ca. 14,000 cal BP. The ca. 14,000 cal BP occupation contains most of the well-preserved fauna. To date, identified fauna from the pre-Clovis aged occupation at McDonald Creek includes a diverse zooarchaeological assemblage consisting of mammoth, steppe bison, caribou, swan, grouse, wolf/domestic dog, fox, and hare. Additional identifications will expand this diverse suite of animals exploited at McDonald Creek.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska

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Abstract Id(s): 32677