Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska: Results of excavations and implications for the age and significance of northern fluted points

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4222-4233

  Goebel, Ted ^a   Smith, Heather L ^a   DiPietro, Lyndsay ^b   Waters, Michael R ^a   Hockett, Bryan ^c   Graf, Kelly E ^a   Gal, Robert ^d   Slobodin, Sergei B ^e   Speakman, Robert J ^f   Driese, Steven G ^b   Rhode, David ^g  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^e Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Land Bridge; Fluted points; Paleoindian technology; Peopling of the Americas

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLONIZATION; DATING METHOD; DIASPORA; PLEISTOCENE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84880823662     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.027     Document Type: Article

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