New dates from Ushki-1, Kamchatka, confirm 13,000calBP age for earliest Paleolithic occupation

Goebel, Ted; Slobodin, Sergei B.; Waters, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.05.024

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“…The statistical results confirmed our field observations that the Block C structure is considerably larger than that reported by Stiger (2006) in Block A. The size of this dwelling is also larger than the average size of hunter-gatherer structures, but a survey of Paleolithic architecture (Morgan 2015, figure 3.4) indicates the Block C dwelling is similar in size to the structures of Ushki-1 Dwelling 11 (Goebel et al 2010) and Gonnersdorf KI and KIIa (Joris et al 2011). This is likely a reflection of archaeological visibility of hunter-gatherer structures and investment in architecture employed by foragers with reduced residential mobility.…”

Section: The Mountaineer Site and Structuressupporting

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Folsom Stone Tool Distribution at the Mountaineer Block C Dwelling: Indoor and Outdoor Spaces as Activity Areas

Morgan

Andrews

2016

PaleoAmerica

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Spatial analysis of the Mountaineer Block C Folsom tool assemblage is presented to investigate how a dwelling structure may have influenced where prehistoric people decided to work. Although no statistically significant difference in the toolkits from inside and outside contexts was found, patterns of significance were detected among individual tool types, particularly scrapers and projectile points. These tool types were apparently utilized more often in certain locations. We offer comparisons from the ethnographic and ethnohistoric records of modern hunter-gatherer behavior at campsites, and suggest significant differences in tool distribution occurred when activities were dictated by amount of space required and when processing byproducts would have contaminated indoor spaces. An overall lack of difference in indoor/outdoor tool assemblages supports the idea that dwellings did not necessarily determine use of space by prehistoric peoples, and activities and sets of activities were carried out in both indoor and outdoor spaces.

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Section: The Mountaineer Site and Structuressupporting

confidence: 84%

Folsom Stone Tool Distribution at the Mountaineer Block C Dwelling: Indoor and Outdoor Spaces as Activity Areas

Morgan

Andrews

2016

PaleoAmerica

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“…Poorly preserved adult remains were recovered from a rock-lined pit outside the house structures of Level 7 (~13,000 cal bp) (Goebel et al, 2003(Goebel et al, , 2010. Ushki Lake 1 Level 6, which is closer in age to USR Component 3 (~12,300 cal bp) (Goebel et al, 2003), contains two child burials in separate houses.…”

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An 11,500-Year-Old Human Cremation from Eastern Beringia (Central Alaska)

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Potter

Reuther

2015

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

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“…BP which continued throughout most of the Holocene (until ca. 800 BP) (Goebel et al, 2003(Goebel et al, , 2010. The site, where people hunted and fished for salmon, represents one of the earliest sites of human occupation in western Beringia and possibly was one of several populations that ultimately gave rise to some of the early American populations (Goebel et al, 2010).…”

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The geography of Kamchatka

Jones

Solomina

2015

Global and Planetary Change

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This paper briefly reviews the physical and human geography of the Kamchatka region and summarises previous research on Holocene climate dynamics. We provide context for the rest of the Special Issue of the Journal Global and Planetary Change entitled 'Holocene climate change in Kamchatka', the primary focus of which is the use of lake sediment records for palaeoclimatic inferences. In this paper an additional perspective from ongoing tree ring, ice core and borehole temperature reconstructions illustrates that the Kamchatka region is rich in paleoclimatic proxies. The period of the last 200 years is sufficiently covered by the proxy information, including reconstructions with annual resolution. In this period the tree-rings, ice cores, boreholes, and glacier fluctuations recorded a 1°C warming and a general glacier retreat, i.e. the transition from the Little Ice Age climate to the modern one. Although the proxies have different resolution, accuracy and seasonality in general they demonstrate a coherent picture of environmental changes in the last two centuries. The tree ring and ice core records are up to four-six hundred years long and they provide information on annual to decadal variability of summer temperature, accumulation processes, volcanic eruptions and lahar activity.

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New dates from Ushki-1, Kamchatka, confirm 13,000calBP age for earliest Paleolithic occupation

Cited by 66 publications

References 47 publications

Folsom Stone Tool Distribution at the Mountaineer Block C Dwelling: Indoor and Outdoor Spaces as Activity Areas

Folsom Stone Tool Distribution at the Mountaineer Block C Dwelling: Indoor and Outdoor Spaces as Activity Areas

An 11,500-Year-Old Human Cremation from Eastern Beringia (Central Alaska)

The geography of Kamchatka

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