Title: On the significance of modified mammoth bones from eastern Beringia
Abstract: Nearly 30 years ago, it was announced that evidence had been discovered, in the Northern Yukon, in support of a pre-Late Glacial Maximum (Wisconsinan maximum) human occupation of easternmost Beringia (Irving & Harington 1973). The evidence in question consisted of an indubitable skin processing tool, called a flesher found together with numerous Late Pleistocene mammoth bone fragments that were described as having been intentionally modified. Recovered from one of the many fossiliferous (secondary) deposits located along the banks of the Old Crow River (Old Crow Flats) (Fig. 1) the specimens (the “flesher” itself and a few of the “modified” mammoth bones) yielded C ages in the range of about 26,000 27,000 BP. On the significance of modified mammoth bones from eastern Beringia
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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