Site Stratigraphy and Radiocarbon Dating at the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ Site in Central Alaska
Author(s): Kelly Graf; Nathan Shelley; Julie Esdale; Ted Goebel
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ is located approximately 55 km southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, approximately 55 km northwest of the Broken Mammoth / Mead/Holzman / Swan Point complex of sites, and about 18 km northwest of Upward Sun River. Continuing excavations have provided tens of thousands of material remains, consisting mostly of lithic artifacts, but also several thousand animal bones, pieces of charcoal, a small set of osseous implements, and several domestic features preserved in a well-stratified context in the site’s lowest archaeological layers. Over 40 radiocarbon dates establish at least three site visits dating to the terminal Pleistocene. In this presentation, we present details of site stratigraphy, preliminary sediment analyses, and radiocarbon dating of these deposits to place them in geoarchaeological context.
Cite this Record
Site Stratigraphy and Radiocarbon Dating at the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ Site in Central Alaska. Kelly Graf, Nathan Shelley, Julie Esdale, Ted Goebel. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 473569)
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Keywords
General
Dating Techniques
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Environment and Climate
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Paleoindian and Paleoamerican
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Shég’ Xdaltth’í’
Geographic Keywords
North America: Arctic and Subarctic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -169.453; min lat: 50.513 ; max long: -49.043; max lat: 72.712 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 36823.0