Ancient Burials at Upward Sun River, Central Alaska

Potter, BA, Irish, JD and Reuther, JD (2024) Ancient Burials at Upward Sun River, Central Alaska. Bioarchaeology International. ISSN 2472-8349

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Abstract

In the late summer about 11,500 years ago, probably in the space of a few weeks, three young Paleoindian children died and were buried in a residential camp alongside Xasaa Na’ (Upward Sun River). An infant and neonate were buried together with associated funerary objects below a central cooking hearth, and later a ~three-year-old child was cremated and buried above the same feature. This article explores the lifeways of the Ancient Beringians that summer, reconstructed through zooarchaeology, stable isotope, spatial, and artifact analyses and implications of the mortuary treatment of these individuals with respect to the regional group, theDenali Complex, and early Paleoindian ideologies.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Divisions:	Biological and Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19)
Publisher:	University of Florida Press
Date of acceptance:	15 November 2024
Date of first compliant Open Access:	18 November 2024
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2024 10:06
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 10:08
DOI or ID number:	10.5744/bi.2023.0025
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24797

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