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During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America. Preface / Acknowledgments / Introduction: The Concept of Beringia by David M. Hopkins Preamble: The Study of Beringia by Frederick H. West Introduction: Reconstructing the Environment by Paul A. Colinvaux Ch. 1: Geological Records - Late Pleistocene Stratigraphic Sections from Northern Alaska Thomas D. Hamilton. Late Quaternary Aeolian Deposits of the Holitna Lowland, Interior Southwestern Alaska Christopher F. Waythomas. Loess-Ice Formation in Northeastern Asia T. D. Morozova, Andrej A. Velichko. Palaeogeography of Beringia and Arctida Savelii V. Tomirdiaro. Ch. 2: Biotic Records - Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Pollen Records from the Southern Brooks Range Patricia M. Anderson, Linda B. Brubaker. Pollen Records: Barrow, Pribilof Archipelago, and Imuruk Lake Paul A. Colinvaux. Pollen Records from Archaeological Sites in the Aldanskiy Region, Sakha Republic G. M. Savvinova, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva, Yuri A. Mochanov. Interpretation of the Pollen Records from Late Quaternary Archaeological Sites of the Aldan Thompson Webb III. Insect Fossil Evidence on Late Wisconsinan Environments of the Bering Land Bridge Scott A. Elias. Four Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Localities in Interior Alaska R. Dale Guthrie. A Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of the "Mammoth Epoch" of Siberia Valentina V. Ukraintseva, Larry D. Agenbroad, Jim I. Mead. Palaeoecology of the Palaeolithic of the Russian Far East Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Part two: Introduction to the Archaeology of Beringia John F. Hoffecker Ch. 3: Aldansk: Aldan River Valley, Sakha Republic - Dyuktai Cave Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ust-Mil 2 Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Verkhne-Troitskaya Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ezhantsy Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ikbine 1 and 2 Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Tumulur Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ust-Timpton (Strata Vb-X) Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Kurung 2 (Stratum VI) Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Leten Novyy 1 (Stratum IV) Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. The Dyuktai Site at Km 27 of the Yakutsk-Pokrovsk Highway Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ch. 4: Priokhotye, Kolyma River Basin, and Kamchatka - Berelekh, Allakhovsk Region Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Mayorych, Yagodinskiy Region, Magadan District Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Kukhtuy 3 Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Bolshoi Elgakhchan 1 and 2, Omolon River Basin, Magadan District Margarita A. Kiryak. Uptar and Kheta: Upper Palaeolithic Sites of the Upper Kolyma Region Sergei B. Slobodin, Maureen L. King. The Ushki Sites, Kamchatka Peninsula Nikolai N. Dikov. Ch. 5: Southern Primorye - Ustinovka 1 Ruslan S. Vasilievsky. Late Palaeolithic Sites of the Russian Maritime Province Primorye Anatoly M. Kuznetsov. Late Pleistocene Sites of the Selemdga River Basin Anatoly P. Derevianko. Ch. 6: Central Alaska: Tanana River Valley - Campus Site Charles M. Mobley. Donnelly Ridge Frederick H. West. Chugwater Ralph A. Lively. Broken Mammoth Charles E. Holmes. Swan Point Charles E. Holmes, Richard VanderHoek, Thomasilley. Healy Lake John P. Cook. Ch. 7: North Central Alaska Range: Nenana and Teklanika Valleys - Teklanika West Frederick H. West. Dry Creek John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow. Owl Ridge John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Peter G. Phippen. Walker Road Ted Goebel, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow, Andrew S. Higgs. Moose Creek John F. Hoffecker. Panguingue Creek Ted Goebel, Nancy H. Bigelow. Little Panguingue Creek John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers. Ch. 8: South Central Alaska Range: Tangle Lakes Region - Phipps Site Frederick H. West, Brian S. Robinson, Mary Lou Curran. Whitmore Ridge Frederick H. West, Brian S. Robinson, Constance F. West. Sparks Point Frederick H. West, Brian S. Robinson, R. Greg Dixon. Reger Site Frederick H. West. Other Sites in the Tangle Lakes Frederick H. West. Ch. 9: North Pacific Littoral, Alaska - Hidden Falls Stanley D. Davis. Ground Hog Bay, Site 2 Robert E. Ackerman. Round Mountain Microblade Locality Douglas R. Reger, Mark E. Pipkin. Beluga Point Douglas R. Reger. Long Lake Douglas R. Reger, Glenn H. Bacon. Ravine Lake Locality Brian S. Robinson, Frederick H. West, Douglas R. Reger. Anangula Core and Blade Site Allen P. McCartney, Douglas W. Veltre. Ch. 10: Kuskokwin Drainage, Southwestern Alaska - Spein Mountain Robert E. Ackerman. Nukluk Mountain Robert E. Ackerman. Ilnuk Site Robert E. Ackerman. Lime Hills, Cave 1 Robert E. Ackerman. Ch. 11: Seward Peninsula and Brooks Range, Northern Alaska - Trail Creek Caves, Seward Peninsula Edited by: Constance F. West. Onion Portage, Kobuk River: Akmak and Kobuk Components Edited by: Frederick Hadleigh West. Two Sites on Red Dog Creek, De Long Mountains S. Craig Gerlach, Edwin S. Hall, Jr. Mesa Site, Iteriak Creek Michael L. Kunz, Richard E. Reanier. Putu and Bedwell Richard E. Reanier. Bluefish Caves Edited by: Robert E. Ackerman. Prismatic Core Sites on the Kukpowruk and Kugururok Rivers Ralph S. Solecki Ch. 12: Beringia and New World Origins - I: The Linguistic Evidence Joseph H. Greenberg. II: The Archaeological Evidence Frederick H. West. Name Index Subject Index |
