New Dates on Northern Yukon Artifacts: Holocene Not Upper Pleistocene
- 9 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 232 (4751) , 749-751
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.232.4751.749
Abstract
New radiocarbon dates on four artifacts that were thought to provide evidence for human occupation of the Yukon Territory during the upper Pleistocene indicate that all four are of late Holocene age. The original radiocarbon age obtained for one artifact (the so-called "Old Crow flesher") was in error by almost 26,000 years.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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