Taxonomy and Taphonomy of Beringian Flora and Fauna from the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands with Reference to the Little John Site (KdVo-6), Yukon, Canada

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.

The Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands (SY-AB) is geographically coincident with the southeastern extent of Pleistocene Beringia. This unglaciated land mass formed a unique refugium along the northwestern margins of the Cordilleran ice cap to the east and south and the Brooks Range glacial mass to the north. This poster summarizes the currently known range of late Pleistocene flora and fauna within the SY-AB as revealed by lake core sediments, accidental recovery during the course of Alaska highway construction, and controlled excavations at the Little John site (KdVo-6), Yukon. Due to the paucity of rigorously excavated sites and subsequent analyses, regional perspectives of the late Pleistocene biota within the SY-AB are less defined than at the local level. This emphasizes the need for increased dedicated archaeological investigations of an area so important to understanding how and when humans arrived in and adapted to a new land.

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): 38515.0