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2. Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup’ik Site of Nunalleq (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, Alaska).

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Forbes, Véronique, Huchet, Jean-Bernard, McManus-Fry, Ellen, Gómez Coutouly, Yan Axel, Masson-MacLean, Julie, Masson-MacLean, Édouard, Ledger, Paul M., Britton, Kate, Hillerdal, Charlotta, and Knecht, Rick

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ENTOMOLOGY, ENTOMOLOGISTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ANTIQUITIES
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2019
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3. Are circumpolar hunter-gatherers visible in the palaeoenvironmental record? Pollen-analytical evidence from Nunalleq, southwestern Alaska.

Author

Ledger, Paul M.

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*PALEOENVIRONMENTAL studies, *PALYNOLOGY, *PALEOECOLOGY, *ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis, *HIGH resolution imaging
Abstract

Identifying evidence for hunter-gatherers in the palaeoenvironmental record is far from simple. Despite decades of research, few studies have demonstrated unambiguous palynological evidence of hunter-gatherers. This paper presents the results of high-resolution palaeoecological analyses of a peat sequence located within the vicinity of the pre-historic Yup’ik village of Nunalleq in southwestern Alaska. The aim of this research was to examine whether there are any discernible palaeoenvironmental impacts associated with the 15th–17th century occupation of the site. Presuming an ephemeral character to any palaeoecological signal, this study selected a sampling location approximately 30 m east of the limit of archaeological remains. Pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and microscopic charcoal analysis were then used to generate a highly resolved (contiguous 1 cm) environmental history for the site. The results are striking and indicate that the activities of prehistoric Yup’ik hunter-gatherers at Nunalleq did leave a clear material trace in the palaeoenvironmental record. Through the application of high-resolution Pb210 and C14 dating and Bayesian modelling, these impacts were found to be concurrent with the occupation of the archaeological site. These findings suggest that not only can circumpolar hunter-gatherers leave a material palaeoenvironmental trace but that these traces may be used to accurately date such site activity in lieu of excavation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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4. New horizons at L’Anse aux Meadows

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Ledger, Paul M., Girdland-Flink, Linus, and Forbes, Véronique

Subjects
010506 paleontology, Peat, Social Sciences, Unesco world heritage, 01 natural sciences, Indigenous, law.invention, law, G1, 0601 history and archaeology, Radiocarbon dating, insects, indigenous, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, GB, Multidisciplinary, GE, 060102 archaeology, Horizon (archaeology), 06 humanities and the arts, Archaeology, Bayesian modeling, Geography, Anthropology, pollen, Norse
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The UNESCO World Heritage site of L’Anse aux Meadows (LAM) in northern Newfoundland is the only undisputed site of pre-1492 presence of Europeans in the Americas. In August 2018, we undertook fieldwork at LAM to sample the peat bog 30 m east of the Norse ruins for a multiproxy paleoenvironmental assessment of Norse settlement. Instead, we encountered a new cultural horizon. Here we report our fieldwork at this iconic site and a Bayesian analysis of legacy radiocarbon data, which nuance previous conclusions and suggest Norse activity at LAM may have endured for a century. In light of these findings, we reflect on how the cultural horizon, containing nonnative ecofacts, may relate to indigenous or Norse activities.

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