Radiocarbon Dates and a Proposed Cultural Chronology for Little John (KdVo-6), a Multicomponent Site in Eastern Beringia, Yukon Territory, 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 Little John site (Borden #KdVo-6) holds a sequential record of human occupation from the Allerød through to the present day, including early and later expressions of the Chindadn complex, the Denali complex, the Northern Archaic tradition, the Late Prehistoric/Dene, the Contact Transitional of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the more recent post-Alaska Highway historic periods. The earliest Occupation period (East Lobe LJ OP I-a, ca.14.5–13.8 Kya) is chronologically equivalent to Holme’s Swan Point Diuktai but technologically ambiguous, dominated by expedient retouched split pebbles, flakes, and flake cores, undiagnostic biface fragments, split cobble choppers, hammerstones, and debitage. East Lobe LJ OP I-b (ca. 13.4– is definitively of the Chindadn Complex, based on directly associated dates to three Chindadn points. Additional undated Chindadn bifaces and associated lithics of the deflated West Lobe basal loess stratum are either formed tools exclusive to OP I-b (Hypothesis 1) or perhaps a mixed Allerød assemblage related to both OP I-a and OP I-b (Hypothesis 2). This poster will present accumulated raw and calibrated radiocarbon dates, stratigraphic and areal distribution across the site, and correlation with other regional sites on the Yukon-Alaska borderlands.

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): 38172.0