Revisiting the mammoth bone modifications from Bluefish Caves (YT, Canada)
| Autor: | Lauriane Bourgeon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Taphonomy 060102 archaeology Pleistocene biology Flake 06 humanities and the arts biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Archaeology Natural (archaeology) Beringia Cave 0601 history and archaeology Carnivore 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Mammoth |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 37:102969 |
| ISSN: | 2352-409X |
| Popis: | The long-debated mammoth bone “core” and “flake” recovered from the Pleistocene loess deposit of Bluefish Cave 2 (Yukon Territory, Canada) and previously described by Cinq-Mars and Morlan (1999) are re-analyzed from a full zooarchaeological and taphonomic perspective. The core and flake are characterized by an absence of carnivore tooth marks and the presence of fresh fracture patterns and two striae potentially attributed to cultural activities. After rejection of several hypotheses involving natural causes, we state that humans were more likely responsible for the bone modifications and we support the hypothesis that a proboscidean bone technology may have been present in eastern Beringia (Alaska/Yukon Territory) sometime between ca. 28,000 and 16,000 years BP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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