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Author Powers, William Roger, author.

Title Dry Creek : archaeology and paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan hunting camp / W. Roger Powers, R. Dale Guthrie, and John F. Hoffecker ; edited by Ted Goebel
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]

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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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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Denali Borough
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Paleo-Indians -- Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
Archaeological geology -- Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
Paleoecology -- Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pleistocene.
Social Science / Archaeology.
Social Science / Anthropology.
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical.
Antiquities
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Archaeological geology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Geology, Stratigraphic
Paleo-Indians
Paleoecology
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
SUBJECT Dry Creek Site (Alaska) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039801
Denali Borough (Alaska) -- Antiquities
Subject Alaska -- Denali Borough
Alaska -- Dry Creek Site
Form Electronic book
Author Guthrie, R. Dale, 1936- author.
Hoffecker, John F., author.
Goebel, Ted, editor.
LC no. 2016048214
ISBN 1623495393
9781623495398