Contesting early archaeology in California

Ferraro, Joseph V.; Binetti, Katie M.; Wiest, Logan A.; Esker, Donald A.; Baker, Lori; Forman, Steven L.

doi:10.1038/nature25165

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“…2017; Haynes 2017, 2018; Ferraro et al . 2018) regarding the Cerutti Mastodon site are valid and convincing. Regardless of whether Holen et al .’s (2017) study should have been published in Nature —or anywhere else (e.g.…”

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The Cerutti Mastodon site and experimental archaeology's quiet coming of age

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Bebber

2019

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The Cerutti Mastodon site and experimental archaeology's quiet coming of age

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“…There is a clear archaeological signal of expansion of people in Northeast Asia using Diuktai-related technologies after 17 000 years ago, connected with the earliest unequivocal site in Eastern Beringia, Swan Point, dating to 14 200 years ago. While human occupations have been asserted for LGM times in North America [ 12 ], or pre-LGM, or even 130 000 years ago [ 13 ], these remain equivocal [ 14 , 53 ]. More support has been given to sites dated to approximately 14 600–13 300 years ago, including Monte Verde and Paisley Caves [ 11 ], though some have also been criticized [ 54 – 56 ].…”

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A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal

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Palaeoenvironmental records from the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge (BLB) covering the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present are needed to document changing environments and connections with the dispersal of humans into North America. Moreover, terrestrially based records of environmental changes are needed in close proximity to the re-establishment of circulation between Pacific and Atlantic Oceans following the end of the last glaciation to test palaeo-climate models for the high latitudes. We present the first terrestrial temperature and hydrologic reconstructions from the LGM to the present from the BLB's south-central margin. We find that the timing of the earliest unequivocal human dispersals into Alaska, based on archaeological evidence, corresponds with a shift to warmer/wetter conditions on the BLB between 14 700 and 13 500 years ago associated with the early Bølling/Allerød interstadial (BA). These environmental changes could have provided the impetus for eastward human dispersal at that time, from Western or central Beringia after a protracted human population standstill. Our data indicate substantial climate-induced environmental changes on the BLB since the LGM, which would potentially have had significant influences on megafaunal and human biogeography in the region.

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“…The team argues that the broken stones and bones were encrusted in calcium carbonate which was itself not broken, thus eliminating the possibility of the breakages being caused by post-deposition forces, such as the machinery at the site. This extremely salient point is simply ignored by Haynes, for example, in his rejection of the site through hypothesizing an alternative possible, but unsupported, explanation for the bone breakage (Ferraro et al 2018;Gruhn 2018;Haynes 2017). Moreover, there were no signs of the bones being trampled or mauled by carnivores.…”

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“…Nor, they claim, were there any geologic forces involved, such as tumbling in a flood or being crushed by falling boulders. The finds were all in fine sediment showing deposition of a small slow, flowing stream with no adjacent high ground (Boëda, Griggo, and Lahaye 2017;Braje et al 2017;Ferraro et al 2018;Haynes 2017;Holen et al 2017aHolen et al , 2017bHolen et al , 2018aHolen et al , 2018b.…”

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Territorializing/decolonizing South American prehistory: Pedra Furada and the Cerutti Mastodon

Turnbull

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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South American rock art and prehistory with all its controversies is a rich site for exploring the processes of territorialization through which humans shape their understanding of the world in their earliest movements through the environment, and also for examining how narratives of prehistory are woven. The paper examines the debate over the Cerutti Mastodon and why Serra da Capivara, one of the largest rock art complexes in the world, remains in analytic limbo. It suggests that rethinking these two examples may offer a possible way out of some of the analytic difficulties in South American prehistory through a decolonizing approach to understanding the reasons for the rejection of the Cerutti Mastodon, and the lack of recognition of Serra da Capivara's most important site-Bocqueirã da Pedra Furada (PBF).

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Contesting early archaeology in California

Cited by 37 publications

References 12 publications

The Cerutti Mastodon site and experimental archaeology's quiet coming of age

The Cerutti Mastodon site and experimental archaeology's quiet coming of age

A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal

Territorializing/decolonizing South American prehistory: Pedra Furada and the Cerutti Mastodon

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