Archaeological Sites of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands: Distribution, Chronology, and Dineh Place Names

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster will map out selected archaeological sites of the SY-AB and provide a table of associated radiocarbon dates calibrated to the most recent IntCal 20. Human occupation of what was then extreme southeastern Beringia begins in the Allerød interstadial (ca. 14.2 to 12.9 Kya) demonstrated at Little John and Brittania Creek in Yukon and Linda’s Point and Nateɬ Na’ in Alaska. The SY-AB also contains a continuous history of Holocene occupations (Moose Lake, Little John, the Tok and Deadman Lake site complexes) and a rich record of Late Prehistoric and postcontact Amerindian-European interaction (Nataeƚde/Batzulnetas, Nabesna/Northway, Chisana, and Scottie Creek site complexes). Archaeological site distribution is complemented by an extensive Ahtna and Upper Tanana native place names corpus and associated ethnohistories, which map onto many of the archaeological sites or places we can reasonably expect to find archaeological deposits.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38442.0