کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5113299 1377924 2017 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Making archaeological sense of Kennewick Man
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات زمین شناسی
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Making archaeological sense of Kennewick Man
چکیده انگلیسی

Four published inferences about Kennewick Man that can distort an understanding of Pacific Northwest prehistory fail a review of new and pre-existing evidence. These are: he was a seal hunter from the northern Northwest Coast; the spear in his pelvis represents a Western Stemmed Tradition type; he was buried in an extended position; and he is more closely related genetically to people of the northern Columbia Plateau than any other Native Americans. A review of damage to the skeleton and its position at discovery indicates semi-flexed burial with downstream orientation. The projectile point in his pelvis matches an Old Cordilleran Tradition type not known from the region where he was found. Stable C and N isotope comparisons to a faunal collection of comparable early Holocene age, and with a contemporary individual found near the Kennewick locality demonstrate that he had a normal diet for early Holocene interior Washington. The high δ15N that stimulated the seal-hunter idea might instead result from nutritionally inadequate subsistence practices. Claims of genetic relationships to a specific Native American tribe suffer from bias and the near absence of comparative data from the U.S. Kennewick Man died at a time of ethnic replacement in the Columbia Plateau and these findings support three possible solutions to his identity that might never be resolved.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Quaternary International - Volume 444, Part B, 20 July 2017, Pages 83-97
نویسندگان
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