Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Preface / Ted Goebel -- The Dry Creek report: Introduction / R. Dale Guthrie and W. Roger Powers -- The Dry Creek Site: a history and description / W. Roger Powers -- The geology of the Dry Creek Site / W. Roger Powers -- Lithic technology of the Dry Creek Site / W. Roger Powers -- The occupation floors at the Dry Creek Site / John F. Hoffecker -- Paleoecology of the Dry Creek Site and its implications for early hunters / R. Dale Guthrie -- Dry Creek and its place in the early archeology of the North / W. Roger Powers and R. Dale Guthrie -- Appendix A. Component IV at the Dry Creek Site / W. Roger Powers -- Dry Creek update: New geoarchaeology and geochronology at Dry Creek / Kelly E. Graf -- Lyndsay M. Dipietro, Kathryn Krasinski, Brandan J. Culleton, Douglas Kennett, Angela K. Gore, and Heather L. Smith -- A Dry Creek retrospective / Ted Goebel and John F. Hoffecker -- References cited -- Contributors |
Summary |
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers and his team studied the site, their work verified initial expectations. Unfortunately, the research was never fully published. Dry Creek: The Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp is ready to take its rightful place in the ongoing research into the peopling of the Am |
Notes |
"Peopling of the Americas publications." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Denali Borough
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Antiquities, Prehistoric.
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Paleo-Indians -- Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
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Archaeological geology -- Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
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Paleoecology -- Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pleistocene.
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Social Science / Archaeology.
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Social Science / Anthropology.
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Social Science / Anthropology / Physical.
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Antiquities
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Archaeological geology
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Geology, Stratigraphic
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Paleo-Indians
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Paleoecology
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Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
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SUBJECT |
Dry Creek Site (Alaska) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039801
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Denali Borough (Alaska) -- Antiquities
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Alaska -- Denali Borough
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Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Guthrie, R. Dale, 1936- author.
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Hoffecker, John F., author.
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Goebel, Ted, editor.
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LC no. |
2016048214 |
ISBN |
1623495393 |
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9781623495398 |
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