The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Great Basin
The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Great Basin
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大盆地更新世末期/全新世早期考古学
DOI：
10.1007/bf02221204
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
George T. Jones
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作者：
C. Beck;George T. Jones
大盆地的晚期更新世和早期全新世的考古记录主要由地表石器组成，因此研究集中在类型学和技术研究上。现有的一小套放射性碳年代测定表明，人类至少在公元前11,500年出现在大盆地，但证据很少。技术分析以及人工制品的分布表明，这一地区最早的居民主要靠狩猎为生，可能是大型陆地游戏。与北美其他地方一样，大盆地的最早居住者面临着快速变化的环境，浅洪积湖遗迹的干涸和新栖息地的建立。除了这些变化之外，更新世结束时，生存资源的显著多样化以及向新环境的扩张是显而易见的。
The archaeological record of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Great Basin consists largely of surface lithic artifacts, and consequently research has concentrated on typological and technological studies. The small suite of radiocarbon dates available suggests human presence in the Great Basin by at least 11,500 B.P., but evidence of subsistence is scanty. Technological analyses as well as artifact distributions suggest that the earliest occupants of this region subsisted primarily by hunting, possibly large terrestrial game. As elsewhere in North America, the earliest occupants of the Great Basin faced a rapidly changing environment, with the drying of shallow pluvial lake remnants and the creation of new habitats. Paralleling these changes, significant subsistence resource diversification coupled with expansion into new environments is evident by the close of the Pleistocene.