Interpreting Technological Activities and Organization at McDonald Creek, Central Alaska, ca. 13,900 Calendar Years Ago

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.

Continuing excavations at the McDonald Creek site, located in the Tanana Flats south of the city of Fairbanks, have yielded a significant assemblage of stone artifacts. Most of these come from a late Pleistocene cultural layer dating to about 13,900 calendar years ago, but smaller assemblages have also been derived from a Younger Dryas-aged cultural layer as well as a middle Holocene cultural layer attributed to the Northern Archaic. This poster presents the results of an ongoing analysis of these materials and, based on these data, interprets technological activities carried out by McDonald Creek’s early human inhabitants. We also explore how these relate to technological-organization strategies, especially in the context of interpretations of settlement and subsistence organization being developed by other members of our research team.

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): 32760