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title	:	Quest for the Origins of the First Americans
author	:	Dixon, E. James.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826314805
print isbn13	:	9780826314802
ebook isbn13	:	9780585273822
language	:	English
subject	Indians--Origin, Indians--Asian influences, Paleo-Indians--North America , Bering Land Bridge--History, Alaska--Antiquities, North America--Antiquities.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	E61.D59 1993eb
ddc	:	970.01
subject	:	Indians--Origin, Indians--Asian influences, Paleo-Indians--North America , Bering Land Bridge--History, Alaska--Antiquities, North America--Antiquities.

Page iii Quest for the Origins of the First Americans E. James Dixon UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE

Page iv Library of Congress cataloging-in-Publiction Data Dixon, E. James. Quest for the origins of the first Americans / E. James Dixon p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8263-1480-5 1. IndiansOrigin. 2. IndiansAsian influences. 3. Paleo IndiansNorth America. 4. Bering Land BridgeHistory. 5. AlaskaAntiquities. 6. North AmericaAntiquities. I. Title. E61.D59 1992 970.01dc20 92-26146 CIP 1993 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Firstpaperboundprinting,1993

Page v This book is dedicated to my friend and colleague, Dick Jordan, who died shortly before it was finished. With his passing the North lost a dedicated archeologist and teacher.

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv The Quest 1 Paleoindians 15 Feast or Famine in Beringia 25 Artifact or Pseudofact 39 The American Paleoarctic Tradition 51 Mincing Mammoth Meat 69 The Nenana Complex 77 People before Paleoindians 93 New Discoveries 105 Synthesis 115 Speculations 125 Bibliography 135 Index 149

Page ix Illustrations 1.1 North America and northeast Asia during the Height of the Wisconsin Glaciation. 1.2 Sequence of Sea Level Rise in the Bering Sea Area 1.3 View from Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Across Bering Strait to Cape Dezhnev, Northeast Siberia. 2.1 Fluted Projectile Points from Eastern Beringia. 2.2 Approximate Late Wisconsin Ice limits of the Laurentide and Cordilleran Glaciers of Western Canada. 2.3 The Distribution of Fluted Projectile Point Sites in Relation to the Retreating Continental Ice (ca. 11,000 B.P). 3.1 Abandoned Gold Dredge, Fish Creek, Alaska. 3.2 Mummified Face and Left Foreleg of a Mammoth Calf. 3.3 Mummified Foot of a Mammoth Calf. 3.4 Complete Mammoth Calf Discovered in 1977 in the Kolyma Area, Northeast Siberia. 3.5 Proposed Late Wisconsin Vegetation Continuum from Lowlands to Mountains for Eastern Beringia. 3.6 Late Radiocarbon Dates for Mammoth, Eastern Beringia. 3.7 Late Radiocarbon Dates for Bison, Eastern Beringia. 3.8 The Author and Gary Selinger Collecting Fossil Tissue Samples at the American Museum of Natural History. 4.1 Gnawed Pleistocene Antlers and Gnawed bone Recovered from the Fairbanks Muck Deposits. 4.2 Caribou Tibia Flesher from the Old Crow Area, Yukon Territory. 4.3 Spirally Fractured and Flaked Bone Core, University of Alaska Museum. 4.4 Bone Flake, probably Mammoth Bone, University of Alaska Museum. 4.5 Caribou Antler Billet, Old Crow Area, Yukon Territory. 5.1 Two Bone Points from the Muck Deposits in the Fairbanks Area. 5.2 The Probable Technique of Manufacture of an Antler Projectile Point of the American Paleoarctic Tradition.

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