The archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5632, 2003, Pages 501-505

  Goebel, Ted ^a   Waters, Michael R ^b   Dikova, Margarita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INDUSTRY; LAKES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ARCHAEOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CARBON 14;

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; LAKE; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHARCOAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIBERIA;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0041343166     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086555     Document Type: Article

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41. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation (grant BCS 0076120). Special thanks to I. Buvit (mapping and descriptions of stratigraphic profiles), K. Graf (lithic artifact analyses), I. Ponkratova (logistical support during the 2000 Ushki expedition). I. Sleptsov (excavation of the layer 6 dwelling at Ushki 5), and K. Terry (artifact illustrations). Thanks to G. Haynes and J. Hoffecker for commenting on an earlier draft of this paper.