E James Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 74788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E James Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | E James |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Frozen Pasts 5
Frozen Pasts 5 (FP 5), the 5th International Glacial and Ice Patch Archaeology Conference, occurred 7-10 September 2021 at Chico Hot Springs Resort midway between Yellowstone National Park and Bozeman, Montana, USA. The Frozen Pasts meetings are international gatherings of interdisciplinary researchers focusing on glacial and ice patch archaeology and related environments
Glacial Archaeology Goes Viral
Glacial Archaeology
.
New Directions in a Warming World
As the Journal of Glacial Archaeology publishes its fifth volume, we also find ourselves observing the thirty-year anniversary of the discovery of the iceman Ötzi (the Tisenjoch iceman). Although artifacts were reported melting from ancient ice for many decades prior to the iceman’s emergence from a glacier in the Tyrolean Alps, his discovery captured the imagination of the press, the public, and researchers around the world
Yukon First Nation use of Copper for End-Blades on Hunting Arrows
Copper metallurgy and bow and arrow technology are widely considered hallmark traits of the Late Prehistoric Period in the northwest of North America (Yukon and Alaska). In recent years, a number of osseous arrow points have been recovered from melting alpine ice patches in the northwest, some with evidence of copper utilization. This article reports on the construction and radiocarbon dating of three osseous arrowheads recovered from Yukon-Alask…
The Early Holocene-aged Component at the Jay Creek Ridge Site, Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska
The Jay Creek Ridge site is an early Holocene stratified site located in the Middle Susitna River Valley in central Alaska. Two components, the Lower and Upper, were defined through several years of testing and excavation in the 1980s (1982–1983 and 1986). Accelerator mass spectrometry dating of the Lower Component indicates the site is around 11,000 calibrated years before present, placing it among the oldest upland sites in the central Alaska R…
Late Pleistocene Colonization of North America from Northeast Asia
John Martin Campbell (1927–2013)
Arctic research in 1956, when he conducted an archeological survey and excavations in the area of Anaktuvuk Pass in Alaska's central Brooks Range.On the basis of his analysis of a series of archeological sites, he defined the Kavik, Kayuk, Tuktu, and Kogruk archeological complexes.His pioneering work demonstrated thousands of years of human land use in the central Brooks Range.His studies underscored the need for archeological research in Interio…
Late Pleistocene colonization of North America from Northeast Asia
Ice Patch Archaeology in Alaska
In the past decade, ice patch archaeological research has been initiated in several areas of Alaska, including Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the Amphitheater Mountains, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Denali National Park and Preserve, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Chugach National Forest, and Katmai National Park. Although still in its formative stages, this research demonstrates that high-altitude ice p…
Trekking the Shore
Genetic analysis of early holocene skeletal remains from Alaska and its implications for the settlement of the Americas
Mitochondrial and Y‐chromosome DNA were analyzed from 10,300‐year‐old human remains excavated from On Your Knees Cave on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Site 49‐PET‐408). This individual's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents the founder haplotype of an additional subhaplogroup of haplogroup D that was brought to the Americas, demonstrating that widely held assumptions about the genetic composition of the earliest Americans are incorrect. The amo…
The Emerging Archaeology of Glaciers and Ice Patches
Melting and retreating glaciers and ice patches (aniuvat) have revealed frozen archaeological remains on several continents, including North America. Artifacts from these sites provide information about high-latitude and high-altitude human adaptations and unique insights into prehistoric material culture. A Geographic Information System (GIS) model, 'Modeling Archaeological Potential of Ice and Snow,' or MAPIS, is being developed to focus aerial…
Human colonization of the Americas
Blood Residues on Fluted Points from Eastern Beringia
Blood residues have been microscopically and chemically detected on fluted projectile points from eastern Beringia. From these residues a variety of large mammal species, including mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), have been identified using biochemical and molecular-biological methods. This is the first time a direct association has been made between the use of fluted projectile points and human predation of extinct fauna and other large Pleistoc…
Late quaternary regional geoarchaeology of Southeast Alaska karst
Karst systems, sea caves, and rock shelters within the coastal temperate rain forest of Alaska's Alexander Archipelago preserve important records of regional archaeology, sea level history, glacial and climatic history, and vertebrate paleontology. Two 14C AMS dates on human bone discovered in a remote cave (49-PET-408) on Prince of Wales Island document the oldest reliably dated human in Alaska to ca. 9800 B.P. A series of 14C AMS dates from cav…
A New Discovery At The Folsom Type Site
A projectile point found at the Folsom site in 1994 brings the number of known type specimens to 24 or 25. Blood residue analysis, fracture patterns, projectile point attributes, and lithic source are consistent with previous site discoveries and interpretations
Broken Canines from Alaskan Cave Deposits
Broken canines from two caves on the Porcupine River, Alaska are analyzed with respect to size, development, morphology, breakage pattern, and stratigraphic placement. These analyses indicate that they are deciduous bear teeth exfoliated in these caves through noncultural processes associated with dental development. Similarity of these teeth to the canines recovered from various stratigraphic levels at Trail Creek Caves 2 and 9, on the Seward Pe…
Context and Environment in Taphonomic Analysis
Field investigations of caves along Alaska's Porcupine River document three major mechanisms which modify bone in patterns similar to alterations produced by man: (1) carnivore fracture; (2) rodent gnawing; and (3) rock fall and rubble scarring. A late Wisconsin faunal assemblage composed of Equus sp., Rangifer tarandus, Ovis dalli, Bison sp., proboscidean, numerous small mammal species, birds, and fish is well documented. This faunal assemblage …
Taphonomic Analysis and Interpretation in North American Pleistocene Archaeology
Pleistocene Proboscidean Fossils from the Alaskan Continental Shelf
Pleistocene proboscidean fossils recovered from the Bering Land Bridge strengthen the hypothesis that man may have originally colonized the Americas via this route during times of lowered sea level.
Interstadial Proboscidean from South-Central Alaska
In 1980 a large proboscidean femur, probably Mammuthus sp., was found in situ in a bluff exposure at the mouth of the Tyone River in the northwestern part of the Copper River Basin, Alaska. The regional setting, stratigraphy, radiocarbon chronology, flora, and implications of the fossil locality, which represents the first documented occurrence of Pleistocene terrestrial mammalian fauna in southern Alaska, are described. Radiocarbon dates and str…
A Reported Early-Man Site Adjacent to Southern Alaska's Continental Shelf
An extensive ancient archeologic site containing lithic artifacts and associated with mammoth remains was reported at Chinitna Bay, southern Alaska in 1943. The presence of such a site adjacent to the continental shelf at the base of the rugged Aleutian Range suggested that humans may have inhabited the inner shelf environment during the late Pleistocene at times of lowered sea level. Because of the site's potential significance, an interdiscipli…
Reply to Hippler and Paul
Reply to Hippler's “The Athabascan of Interior Alaska
Blood Residues on Fluted Points from Eastern Beringia
Blood residues have been microscopically and chemically detected on fluted projectile points from eastern Beringia. From these residues a variety of large mammal species, including mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), have been identified using biochemical and molecular-biological methods. This is the first time a direct association has been made between the use of fluted projectile points and human predation of extinct fauna and other large Pleistoc…
Genetic analysis of early holocene skeletal remains from Alaska and its implications for the settlement of the Americas
Mitochondrial and Y‐chromosome DNA were analyzed from 10,300‐year‐old human remains excavated from On Your Knees Cave on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Site 49‐PET‐408). This individual's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents the founder haplotype of an additional subhaplogroup of haplogroup D that was brought to the Americas, demonstrating that widely held assumptions about the genetic composition of the earliest Americans are incorrect. The amo…
The Emerging Archaeology of Glaciers and Ice Patches
Melting and retreating glaciers and ice patches (aniuvat) have revealed frozen archaeological remains on several continents, including North America. Artifacts from these sites provide information about high-latitude and high-altitude human adaptations and unique insights into prehistoric material culture. A Geographic Information System (GIS) model, 'Modeling Archaeological Potential of Ice and Snow,' or MAPIS, is being developed to focus aerial…
Reply to Hippler's “The Athabascan of Interior Alaska
Reply to Hippler's “The Athabascan of Interior Alaska
Reply to Hippler and Paul
A Reported Early-Man Site Adjacent to Southern Alaska's Continental Shelf
An extensive ancient archeologic site containing lithic artifacts and associated with mammoth remains was reported at Chinitna Bay, southern Alaska in 1943. The presence of such a site adjacent to the continental shelf at the base of the rugged Aleutian Range suggested that humans may have inhabited the inner shelf environment during the late Pleistocene at times of lowered sea level. Because of the site's potential significance, an interdiscipli…
Interstadial Proboscidean from South-Central Alaska
In 1980 a large proboscidean femur, probably Mammuthus sp., was found in situ in a bluff exposure at the mouth of the Tyone River in the northwestern part of the Copper River Basin, Alaska. The regional setting, stratigraphy, radiocarbon chronology, flora, and implications of the fossil locality, which represents the first documented occurrence of Pleistocene terrestrial mammalian fauna in southern Alaska, are described. Radiocarbon dates and str…
Pleistocene Proboscidean Fossils from the Alaskan Continental Shelf
Pleistocene proboscidean fossils recovered from the Bering Land Bridge strengthen the hypothesis that man may have originally colonized the Americas via this route during times of lowered sea level.
Context and Environment in Taphonomic Analysis
Field investigations of caves along Alaska's Porcupine River document three major mechanisms which modify bone in patterns similar to alterations produced by man: (1) carnivore fracture; (2) rodent gnawing; and (3) rock fall and rubble scarring. A late Wisconsin faunal assemblage composed of Equus sp., Rangifer tarandus, Ovis dalli, Bison sp., proboscidean, numerous small mammal species, birds, and fish is well documented. This faunal assemblage …
Taphonomic Analysis and Interpretation in North American Pleistocene Archaeology
Broken Canines from Alaskan Cave Deposits
Broken canines from two caves on the Porcupine River, Alaska are analyzed with respect to size, development, morphology, breakage pattern, and stratigraphic placement. These analyses indicate that they are deciduous bear teeth exfoliated in these caves through noncultural processes associated with dental development. Similarity of these teeth to the canines recovered from various stratigraphic levels at Trail Creek Caves 2 and 9, on the Seward Pe…
Late quaternary regional geoarchaeology of Southeast Alaska karst
Karst systems, sea caves, and rock shelters within the coastal temperate rain forest of Alaska's Alexander Archipelago preserve important records of regional archaeology, sea level history, glacial and climatic history, and vertebrate paleontology. Two 14C AMS dates on human bone discovered in a remote cave (49-PET-408) on Prince of Wales Island document the oldest reliably dated human in Alaska to ca. 9800 B.P. A series of 14C AMS dates from cav…
A New Discovery At The Folsom Type Site
A projectile point found at the Folsom site in 1994 brings the number of known type specimens to 24 or 25. Blood residue analysis, fracture patterns, projectile point attributes, and lithic source are consistent with previous site discoveries and interpretations
Blood Residues on Fluted Points from Eastern Beringia
Blood residues have been microscopically and chemically detected on fluted projectile points from eastern Beringia. From these residues a variety of large mammal species, including mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), have been identified using biochemical and molecular-biological methods. This is the first time a direct association has been made between the use of fluted projectile points and human predation of extinct fauna and other large Pleistoc…
Human colonization of the Americas
The Emerging Archaeology of Glaciers and Ice Patches
Melting and retreating glaciers and ice patches (aniuvat) have revealed frozen archaeological remains on several continents, including North America. Artifacts from these sites provide information about high-latitude and high-altitude human adaptations and unique insights into prehistoric material culture. A Geographic Information System (GIS) model, 'Modeling Archaeological Potential of Ice and Snow,' or MAPIS, is being developed to focus aerial…
Genetic analysis of early holocene skeletal remains from Alaska and its implications for the settlement of the Americas
Mitochondrial and Y‐chromosome DNA were analyzed from 10,300‐year‐old human remains excavated from On Your Knees Cave on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Site 49‐PET‐408). This individual's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents the founder haplotype of an additional subhaplogroup of haplogroup D that was brought to the Americas, demonstrating that widely held assumptions about the genetic composition of the earliest Americans are incorrect. The amo…
Ice Patch Archaeology in Alaska
In the past decade, ice patch archaeological research has been initiated in several areas of Alaska, including Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the Amphitheater Mountains, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Denali National Park and Preserve, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Chugach National Forest, and Katmai National Park. Although still in its formative stages, this research demonstrates that high-altitude ice p…
Trekking the Shore
Late Pleistocene colonization of North America from Northeast Asia
John Martin Campbell (1927–2013)
Arctic research in 1956, when he conducted an archeological survey and excavations in the area of Anaktuvuk Pass in Alaska's central Brooks Range.On the basis of his analysis of a series of archeological sites, he defined the Kavik, Kayuk, Tuktu, and Kogruk archeological complexes.His pioneering work demonstrated thousands of years of human land use in the central Brooks Range.His studies underscored the need for archeological research in Interio…
Late Pleistocene Colonization of North America from Northeast Asia
The Early Holocene-aged Component at the Jay Creek Ridge Site, Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska
The Jay Creek Ridge site is an early Holocene stratified site located in the Middle Susitna River Valley in central Alaska. Two components, the Lower and Upper, were defined through several years of testing and excavation in the 1980s (1982–1983 and 1986). Accelerator mass spectrometry dating of the Lower Component indicates the site is around 11,000 calibrated years before present, placing it among the oldest upland sites in the central Alaska R…
Yukon First Nation use of Copper for End-Blades on Hunting Arrows
Copper metallurgy and bow and arrow technology are widely considered hallmark traits of the Late Prehistoric Period in the northwest of North America (Yukon and Alaska). In recent years, a number of osseous arrow points have been recovered from melting alpine ice patches in the northwest, some with evidence of copper utilization. This article reports on the construction and radiocarbon dating of three osseous arrowheads recovered from Yukon-Alask…
New Directions in a Warming World
As the Journal of Glacial Archaeology publishes its fifth volume, we also find ourselves observing the thirty-year anniversary of the discovery of the iceman Ötzi (the Tisenjoch iceman). Although artifacts were reported melting from ancient ice for many decades prior to the iceman’s emergence from a glacier in the Tyrolean Alps, his discovery captured the imagination of the press, the public, and researchers around the world
Frozen Pasts 5
Frozen Pasts 5 (FP 5), the 5th International Glacial and Ice Patch Archaeology Conference, occurred 7-10 September 2021 at Chico Hot Springs Resort midway between Yellowstone National Park and Bozeman, Montana, USA. The Frozen Pasts meetings are international gatherings of interdisciplinary researchers focusing on glacial and ice patch archaeology and related environments
Glacial Archaeology Goes Viral
Glacial Archaeology
.
Archaeology (20 works) · Geography (20 works) · Geology (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geology (12 works) · Pleistocene (10 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works) · Glacial period (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works)