Preface ........................................................ ix
Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
1 Introducing the Archaeological Record of Beringia ............ 1
TED GOEBEL AND IAN BUVIT
Part I. Upper Paleolithic Siberia and Western Beringia
2 On Late Upper Paleolithic Variability in South-Central
Siberia: Rethinking the Afontova and Kokorevo Cultures ...... 33
KELLY E. GRAF
3 Last Glacial Maximum Human Populations in the Southwest
Transbaikal, Southern Siberia ............................... 47
IAN BUVIT AND KARISA TERRY
4 Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic Technological Variability
in the Lower Vitim Valley, Eastern Siberia .................. 58
EVGENY M. INESHIN AND ALEKSEI V. TETEN'KIN
5 Identifying Pressure Flaking Modes at Diuktai Cave: A Case
Study of the Siberian Upper Paleolithic Microblade
Tradition ................................................... 75
YAN AXEL GÓMEZ COUTOULY
6 Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Cultures of Beringia:
The General and the Specific ................................ 91
SERGEI B. SLOBODIN
Part II. Late Glacial Technologies of Eastern Beringia
7 The Earliest Alaskan Archaeological Record: A View from
Siberia .................................................... 119
SERGEY A. VASIL'EV
8 Functional Variability in the Late Pleistocene
Archaeological Record of Eastern Beringia:
A Model of Late Pleistocene Land Use and Technology from
Northwest Alaska ........................................... 128
JEFFREY Т. RASIC
9 Assemblage Variability in Beringia: The Mesa Factor ........ 165
JOHN F. HOFFECKER
10 The Beringian and Transitional Periods in Alaska:
Technology of the East Beringian Tradition as Viewed from
Swan Point ................................................. 179
CHARLES E. HOLMES
11 Residue Analysis of Bone-Fueled Pleistocene Hearths ........ 192
barbara a. crass, brant l. kedrowski, jacob baus, and
JEFFERY A. BEHM
12 What Is the Nenana Complex? Raw Material Procurement and
Technological Organization at Walker Road, Central Alaska .. 199
TED GOEBEL
13 Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Assemblage
Variability in Central Alaska .............................. 215
BEN A. POTTER
14 The Microblade/Non-Microblade Dichotomy: Climatic
Implications, Toolkit Variability, and the Role of Tiny
Tools in Eastern Beringia .................................. 234
BRIAN T. WYGAL
15 Microblade Assemblages in Southwestern Alaska: An Early
Holocene Adaptation ........................................ 255
ROBERT E. ACKERMAN
16 Gaining Momentum: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Archaeological Obsidian Source Studies in Interior and
Northeastern Beringia ...................................... 270
JOSHUA D. REUTHER, NATALIA S. SLOBODINA, JEFFREY T.
RASIC, JOHN P. COOK, AND ROBERT J. SPEAKMAN
Part III. Perspectives from Northwest Canada
17 Chindadn in Canada? Emergent Evidence of the Pleistocene
Transition in Southeast Beringia as Revealed by the
Little John Site, Yukon .................................... 289
NORMAN ALEXANDER EASTON, GLEN R. MACKAY, PATRICIA BERN
ICE YOUNG, PETER SCHNURR, AND DAVID R. YESNER
18 Geoarchaeological and Zooarchaeological Correlates of
Early Beringian Artifact Assemblages: Insights from the
Little John Site, Yukon .................................... 308
DAVID R. YESNER, KRISTINE J. CROSSEN, AND NORMAN
A. EASTON
19 Function, Visibility, and Interpretation of Archaeological
Assemblages at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in
Haida Gwaii ................................................ 323
DARYL FEDJE, QUENTIN MACKIE, NICOLE SMITH, AND DUNCAN
MCLAREN
IV. Synthesis: Explaining Assemblage Variability from the
Yenisei to the Yukon
20 Technology, Typology, and Subsistence: A Partly
Contrarian Look at the Peopling of Beringia ................ 345
DON E. DUMOND
21 Arrows, Atlatls, and Cultural-Historical Conundrums ........ 362
E. JAMES DIXON
Contributors .................................................. 371
Index ......................................................... 373
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