DDRIG: High Latitude Adaptations and Geoarchaeology at the Little John site, Yukon Territory, Canada

该奖项支持对加拿大育空地区小约翰遗址的材料进行挖掘、取样和石器、地质考古、年代和古环境分析的论文项目。该遗址是一个分层的晚更新世-全新世早期遗址，考古组合涉及所谓的Nenana/Chindadn（没有微叶片）和Denali（微叶片）复合体。该遗址包括一个古土壤地层分离的地点，并有望评估这两个建筑群在文化上不同（可能意味着不相关的种群）和/或功能上不同（即，与技术进化或季节性工具箱变化有关）的命题，这一命题与阿拉斯加中部其他遗址的观点不同。副主任（博士生）将协助监督挖掘工作，并领导分析，以评估组合类型是否在地层和年代上不同，以及它们是否与古环境变化相关。这些相关性可能有助于澄清关于这些组合在东白令陆桥考古中的重要性的长期争论。

This award supports a dissertation project to conduct excavation, sampling and lithic, geoarchaeological, chronological, and paleoenvironmental analysis of materials from the Little John site in Yukon, Canada. The site is important as a stratified, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene site with archaeological assemblages relating to the so-called Nenana/Chindadn (without microblades) and Denali (microblades) complexes. The site includes a locus with stratigraphic separation of paleosols and holds promise for evaluating the proposition that these two complexes are culturally distinct (presumably implying unrelated populations) and/or functionally distinct (i.e., relating to technological evolution or seasonal tool kit changes) as has been argued variously from other sites in central Alaska. The co-PI (Ph.D. student) will help supervise the excavation and lead the analyses to evaluate whether the assemblage types are stratigraphically and chronologically distinct and whether they correlate with paleoenvironmental change. These correlations presumably will yield insights to help clarify the long-standing debate about the significance of these assemblages in the archaeology of Eastern Beringia.