Exploratory models of intersite variability in mid to Late Holocene central Alaska

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Interrelated aspects of technology, site structure, and subsistence patterns in central Alaska are synthesized using a comprehensive database of radiocarbon-dated components. Microblade technology is examined with respect to broad patterns of technology, settlement, and subsistence. Striking changes in the archaeological record during the Late Holocene (∼1000 cal BP), including the loss of microblades, are explored through three general models: technological and economic change within existing populations, population replacement or assimilation, and taphonomic bias. The evidence most strongly supports the first: a shift from multiseasonal large mammal hunting strategies with associated high residential mobility to exploitation of seasonally overabundant resources (caribou, fish) and increased logistical mobility and reliance on storage. © The Arctic Institute of North America.

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Potter, B. A. (2008). Exploratory models of intersite variability in mid to Late Holocene central Alaska. Arctic, 61(4), 407–425. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic49

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