Geological and Cultural Context of the Nogahabara I Site

Interpretation of the Nogahabara I assemblage as a Late Pleistocene abandoned toolkit rests primarily on the premise of a single brief occupation at the site. The limited contextual data presented do not discount a palimpsest of noncontemporaneous assemblages in secondary contexts associated with a...

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Published in:American antiquity 2008-10, Vol.73 (4), p.781-790
Main Authors: Holmes, Charles E., Potter, Ben A., Reuther, Joshua D., Mason, Owen K., Thorson, Robert M., Bowers, Peter M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
America and Arctic regions
Archaeological sites
Arctic regions
Bones
Carbon dating
Cultural factors
Discovery and exploration
Dunes
Geoarchaeology
Geology
Historic artifacts
Human geography
Hypothesis testing
Lag deposits
Lithic industry
Material culture
Methodology and general studies
Obsidian
Occupations
Paleoanthropology
Prehistory
Prehistory and protohistory
Sand
Sand dunes
Social aspects
Typology, technology and attribute analysis
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Summary:Interpretation of the Nogahabara I assemblage as a Late Pleistocene abandoned toolkit rests primarily on the premise of a single brief occupation at the site. The limited contextual data presented do not discount a palimpsest of noncontemporaneous assemblages in secondary contexts associated with a lag deposit. Spatial patterning, lithic assemblage patterning, artifact surface alteration, and disparate radiocarbon dates at the site, as well as geological data from the Nogahabara and nearby Kobuk dunes, indicate that the cultural material was subjected to post-depositional disturbance. Alternate hypotheses of site formation and avenues for testing these hypotheses are considered.
ISSN:0002-7316
2325-5064
DOI:10.1017/S0002731600047405