2020
DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2020.34
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A Multiscalar Consideration of the Athabascan Migration

Abstract: Genetic and linguistic evidence suggests that, after living in the Subarctic for thousands of years, Northern Athabascans began migrating to the American Southwest around 1,000 years ago. Anthropologists have proposed that this partial out-migration and several associated in situ behavioral changes were the result of a massive volcanic eruption that decimated regional caribou herds. However, regional populations appear to increase around the time of these changes, a demographic shift that may have led … Show more

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“…Economic exchange, Dene movement, and White River Ash east Some have argued that WRAe had no real consequences for hunter-gatherers (e.g., Gordon, 2012). Doering et al (2020) suggest that demographic shifts in the Yukon Basin prior to WRAe may have led to increased territoriality, resource stress, and harvesting specialization (salmon and caribou), coupled with an overall increase in diet breadth. Gradual demographic pressures accordingly stimulated behavioral transitions in the study area and Dene migration, irrespective of the WRAe eruption (Doering et al, 2020).…”
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“…Economic exchange, Dene movement, and White River Ash east Some have argued that WRAe had no real consequences for hunter-gatherers (e.g., Gordon, 2012). Doering et al (2020) suggest that demographic shifts in the Yukon Basin prior to WRAe may have led to increased territoriality, resource stress, and harvesting specialization (salmon and caribou), coupled with an overall increase in diet breadth. Gradual demographic pressures accordingly stimulated behavioral transitions in the study area and Dene migration, irrespective of the WRAe eruption (Doering et al, 2020).…”
Section: Coppermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Doering et al (2020) suggest that demographic shifts in the Yukon Basin prior to WRAe may have led to increased territoriality, resource stress, and harvesting specialization (salmon and caribou), coupled with an overall increase in diet breadth. Gradual demographic pressures accordingly stimulated behavioral transitions in the study area and Dene migration, irrespective of the WRAe eruption (Doering et al, 2020). While this mode of analysis merits further research, we argue that several lines of evidence (palaeoenvironmental, analogous effects from modern eruptions, sourced lithic proxy data, and technological changes) point to significant impacts of the eruption.…”
Section: Coppermentioning
confidence: 99%
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