Systematic Data Recovery at Archaeological Sites in the McIntyre Creek Valley, Whitehorse, Yukon

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 presents on the preliminary findings of systematic data recovery excavations at several archaeological sites within the city of Whitehorse, Yukon. These sites tentatively include JeUs-42, JeUs-43, and JeUs-96. Excavations were undertaken by Stantec during the 2023 field season; one site was partially excavated in 2010. Cultural materials recovered include microblade technology, bifacial technology, faunal remains as well as a thermal feature that likely predates the deposition of White River Tephra (~1500 YBP). Lithic material types include a variety of visually distinctive cherts, agate, and obsidian. Intrasite analyses are presented respectively. Intersite analyses and regional comparisons are also explored and are suggested to culturally correlate to a cluster of microblade sites located in the McIntyre Creek Valley, dating to the Early/Mid Holocene. The distribution of these sites is presented. Findings suggest these sites may represent bison hunting and/or processing sites. The suite of sites explored in this poster further regional understandings of the formation of cultural assemblages resulting from hunting activities within the Whitehorse subregion of SW Yukon.

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): 39558.0