Article Title：Current perspectives on the Pleistocene archaeology of eastern Beringia
Abstract：
Most recent summaries of eastern Beringian (Alaska and Yukon) archaeology present the Nenana complex, beginning 11,500-12,000 C-14 yr B.P., as the beginning of the regional archaeological record. Either explicitly or tacitly, these summaries dismiss or ignore a body of older putative evidence of human occupation that may span the late Wisconsin stade and even extend into part of the mid-Wisconsin interstade. This paper summarizes the interpretive problems surrounding the older findings, bringing together data that have accumulated over a period of two decades, in the hope that a coherent presentation will encourage more careful appraisals of the materials. The paper concludes with a family of testable hypotheses concerning the beginnings of human occupation in eastern Beringia. The hypothesis that people were present during the mid-Wisconsin interstade has not yet been falsified. (C) 2003 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: pleistocene archaeology; Eastern Beringia; taphonomy; Old Crow Basin; Bluefish Caves
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00070-X
Source：QUATERNARY RESEARCH
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