New insights into eastern Beringian mortuary behavior: A terminal Pleistocene double infant burial at Upward Sun River

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 17060-17065

  Potter, Ben A ^d   Irish, Joel D ^b   Reuther, Joshua D ^a,c   McKinney, Holly J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Beringia; Mortuary archaeology; Paleoindians; Skeletal remains; Terminal pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ALASKA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; BONE; BURIAL; FETUS; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RIVER; TOOTH;

ALASKA; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; BURIAL; FETUS; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RIVERS; TOOTH;

EID: 84914127559     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413131111     Document Type: Article

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