From the Yenisei to the Yukon: Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia

Contents

vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introducing the Archaeological Record of Beringia 1 ted goebel and ian buvit Part I. Upper Paleolithic Siberia and Western Beringia 2. On Late Upper Paleolithic Variability in South-Central Siberia: Rethinking the Afontova and Kokorevo Cultures 33 Kelly E. Graf 3. Last Glacial Maximum Human Populations in the Southwest Transbaikal, Southern Siberia 47 Ian Buvit and Karisa Terry 4. Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic Technological Variability in the Lower Vitim Valley, Eastern Siberia 58 Evgeny M. Ineshin and Aleksei V. Teten’kin 5. Identifying Pressure Flaking Modes at Diuktai Cave: A Case Study of the Siberian Upper Paleolithic Microblade Tradition 75 Yan Axel Gómez Coutouly 6. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Cultures of Beringia: The General and the Specific 91 Sergei B. Slobodin Part II. Late Glacial Technologies of Eastern Beringia 7. The Earliest Alaskan Archaeological Record: A View from Siberia 119 Sergey A. Vasil’ev 8. Functional Variability in the Late Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Eastern Beringia: A Model of Late Pleistocene Land Use and Technology from Northwest Alaska 128 Jeffrey t. Rasic 9. Assemblage Variability in Beringia: The Mesa Factor 165 John F. Hoffecker 10. The Beringian and Transitional Periods in Alaska: Technology of the East Beringian Tradition as Viewed from Swan Point 179 Charles E. Holmes 11. Residue Analysis of Bone-Fueled Pleistocene Hearths 192 Barbara A. Crass, Brant L. Kedrowski, Jacob Baus, and Jeffery A. Behm Contents viii Contents 12. What Is the Nenana Complex? Raw Material Procurement and Technological Organization at Walker Road, Central Alaska 199 Ted Goebel 13. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Assemblage Variability in Central Alaska 215 Ben A. Potter 14. The Microblade/Non-Microblade Dichotomy: Climatic Implications, Toolkit Variability, and the Role of Tiny Tools in Eastern Beringia 234 Brian T. Wygal 15. Microblade Assemblages in Southwestern Alaska: An Early Holocene Adaptation 255 Robert E. Ackerman 16. Gaining Momentum: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeological Obsidian Source Studies in Interior and Northeastern Beringia 270 Joshua D. Reuther, Natalia S. Slobodina, Jeffrey t. Rasic, John P. Cook, and Robert J. Speakman Part III. Perspectives from Northwest Canada 17. Chindadn in Canada? Emergent Evidence of the Pleistocene Transition in Southeast Beringia as Revealed by the Little John Site, Yukon 289 Norman Alexander Easton, Glen R. MacKay, Patricia Bernice Young, Peter Schnurr, and David r. Yesner 18. Geoarchaeological and Zooarchaeological Correlates of Early Beringian Artifact Assemblages: Insights from the Little John Site, Yukon 308 David R. Yesner, Kristine J. Crossen, and Norman A. Easton 19. Function, Visibility, and Interpretation of Archaeological Assemblages at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in Haida Gwaii 323 Daryl Fedje, Quentin Mackie, Nicole Smith, and Duncan McLaren IV. Synthesis: Explaining Assemblage Variability from the Yenisei to the Yukon 20. Technology, Typology, and Subsistence: A Partly Contrarian Look at the Peopling of Beringia 345 Don E. Dumond 21. Arrows, Atlatls, and Cultural-Historical Conundrums 362 E. James Dixon Contributors 371 Index 373 ...