UCLA Radiocarbon Dates XI

Berger, Rainer; Protsch, Reiner

doi:10.1017/s0033822200044611

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“…According to this scenario, use of marine foods was only initiated as part of an adaptation to the deterioration of Pleistocene environments, which forced interior 1970Simons et al 1985Origer and Fredrickson 1980Hildebrandt 1983Cartier 1988Fredrickson 1984Schwadereretal. 1990Greenwood 1972Bergeret al 1971Wallace 1966McKenna 1985Gallegos 1984Glassow 1981Erlandson 1988aErlandson et al 1987Erlandson 1988cBeck 1971Heizer 1938 Riddell andOlsen 1969 AMEF Greenwood 1969Fenenga 1984Drover et al 1983Snethkamp and Guthrie 1988Norwood and Walker 1980Moriarty 1967Kaldenberg 1982Berger and Protsch 1989Jones 1956:271 Sails 1988Warren and Ore 1978…”

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Marine-Resource Value and the Priority of Coastal Settlement: A California Perspective

Jones

1991

Am. antiq.

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The value of marine resources and coastal environments to hunter-gatherers has long been debated, with the archaeological record frequently invoked as the ultimate test for various arguments. Optimal-foraging principles suggest that the temporal priority of the exploitation of one resource over another indicates its value with respect to subsistence efficiency, a crucial variable in overall reproductive success. If coastal habitats are highly valuable, their exploitation should be seen early in the archaeological record; if not, a time lag should be evident between the initial exploitation of terrestrial and coastal environments. A review of the archaeology of early marine-resource use in prehistoric California reveals complex patterning that does not exclusively support one position or the other. Certain of these data accommodate the traditional model of an adaptive transition between specialized hunting of terrestrial big game during the Paleoindian period and diversification, including marine-resource exploitation, during the Archaic period. Others, however, suggest that shellfish were part of the diet of the initial colonists of western North America, indicating the value of this resource to mobility-restricted members of hunting and gathering groups.

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Marine-Resource Value and the Priority of Coastal Settlement: A California Perspective

Jones

1991

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“…On this basis, the marine reservoir correction for this region was 750 years. Stafford et al (1990); b Green et al (1998); c Berger and Protsch (1989); d Kaufman (1980); e Johnson et al (2000); f Breternitz et al (1971); g Kirner et al (1997); h Berger et al (1971). The spread in marine shell ages from around the Gulf (Robinson and Thompson 1981;unpublished data) and results from archived pre-1950 salmon scales (Brown et al 1988;T Brown, personal communication) suggest that a reasonable estimate for the geographic variability in this correction is the equivalent of ±60 years.…”

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The Kennewick Skeleton: Chronological and Biomolecular Contexts

Taylor¹,

Smith²,

Southon³

2001

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT.A human skeleton recovered near Kennewick, Washington, USA in 1996 has been dated to the early Holocene on the basis of multiple radiocarbon determinations, an analysis of a style of a temporally diagnostic projectile point found embedded in the ilium of the skeleton, and geological investigations of the locality where the skeleton was recovered. Based on morphological criteria, the Kennewick skeleton, which is one of the most complete early Holocene human skeletons recovered so far in the Western Hemisphere, appears to be more similar to those of modern South Asians and Europeans than to modern Native Americans or to contemporary indigenous populations of Northeast Asia.

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New evidence on the spatiotemporal distribution and evolution of the Uto‐Aztecan premolar

Johnson

Stojanowski

Miyar

et al. 2011

American J Phys Anthropol

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Uto-Aztecan premolar (UAP) is a rare morphological feature of the maxillary first premolar that occurs in Native American populations with frequencies ranging 0-16.7%. A recent summary of UAP by Delgado-Burbano et al. (2010) suggests the trait evolved around 4,000 BP in the American Southwest where the earliest cases occur and where the trait exists at the highest frequencies among contemporary populations. In this article, we present new data on UAP prevalence from an Archaic North American sample from Buckeye Knoll, Texas (circa 7,500-6,200 cal BP). Buckeye Knoll preserves a single case of UAP, and a sample frequency of 3.6%. In addition, we confirm the presence of UAP in other eastern North American Archaic skeletal samples from the Windover and Harris Creek at Tick Island sites in Florida. We also review the dental morphological literature to assess: 1) whether UAP prevalence is limited to New World populations, and 2) whether the trait's antiquity can be extended further into the Early Holocene Paleoindian period. Additional cases of UAP are presented from the Pacific coast of South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Combined, these data greatly expand the spatial and temporal distribution of UAP and suggest the trait evolved considerably earlier than previously thought.

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UCLA Radiocarbon Dates XI

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Marine-Resource Value and the Priority of Coastal Settlement: A California Perspective

Marine-Resource Value and the Priority of Coastal Settlement: A California Perspective

The Kennewick Skeleton: Chronological and Biomolecular Contexts

New evidence on the spatiotemporal distribution and evolution of the Uto‐Aztecan premolar

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