HUMAN ADAPTATIONS IN THE GREAT BASIN BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE YOUNGER DRYAS (original) (raw)

XVI INQUA Congress, 2003

Abstract

Our knowledge of the Great Basin's first human inhabitants has grown considerably in the past twenty years. Analyses of animal and plant remains recovered from caves, rockshelters, and buried open-air sites indicate that early hunter-gatherers in the region consumed a broad array of animals and plants, not just high-ranked large-mammal resources. Studies of lithic technological organization (based primarily on artifact assemblages from undated surface sites) further suggest that these hunter-gatherers were highly mobile, often ...

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