Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points in Arctic Alaska

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Large, shoulderless stemmed bifacial projectile points are a hallmark of the late Pleistocene age Sluiceway complex represented in more than two dozen sites northern Alaska. This paper discusses the dating of this technology and potential relationship to fluted projectile point and microblade technologies, which are roughly co-eval in this region. Sluiceway complex projectile point technology is examined in light of high-latitude environmental challenges of marked seasonality and fleeting subsistence resource availability, as well as a unique lithic raw material landscape characterized by abundant, high-quality chert.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36548.0