Small mammals and paleovironmental context of the terminal pleistocene and early holocene human occupation of central Alaska Item Type Article Authors Lanoë, François B.; Reuther, Joshua D.; Holmes, Charles E.; Potter, Ben A. Citation Lanoë, FB, Reuther, JD, Holmes, CE, Potter, BA. Small mammals and paleovironmental context of the terminal pleistocene and early holocene human occupation of central Alaska. Geoarchaeology. 2019; 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21768 DOI 10.1002/gea.21768 Publisher WILEY Journal GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Rights © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Download date 07/10/2021 13:55:14 Item License http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Version Final accepted manuscript Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/634952 Page 2 of 42 1 2 3 1 SMALL MAMMALS AND PALEOVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF THE TERMINAL 4 5 2 PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE HUMAN OCCUPATION OF CENTRAL 6 3 ALASKA 7 8 4 François B. Lanoëab, Joshua D. Reutherbc, Charles E. Holmesc, and Ben A. Potterc 9 10 5 11 a 12 6 Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1009 E S Campus Dr, 13 7 Tucson, AZ 85721 14 bArchaeology Department, University of Alaska Museum of the North, 1962 Yukon Dr, 15 8 16 9 Fairbanks, AK 99775 17 10 cDepartment of Anthropology, University of Alaska, 303 Tanana Loop, Fairbanks, AK 99775 18 19 11 20 21 12 Corresponding author: François Lanoë,
[email protected] 22 23 13 24 25 14 Abstract 26 27 15 This paper explores paleoenvironmental and paleoecological information that may be obtained 28 16 from small-mammal assemblages recovered at central Alaska archaeological sites dated to the 29 30 17 Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene (14,500-8000 cal B.P.).