Yan Axel Gómez Coutouly
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 122329 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yan Axel Gómez Coutouly |
| NOMBRES | Yan Axel Gómez |
| APELLIDO | Coutouly |
| FIRMA | COUTOULY Y A G |
| AFILIACIONES | Préhistoire et Technologie |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8246-1550 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Techno-spatial analysis of the obsidian productions at Dry Creek (Interior Alaska)
Interior Alaska is a key-region for studying long-distance circulation/use of obsidian. • This work focuses on Dry Creek, the largest obsidian assemblage in interior Alaska. • The data is the largest published sample size of source obsidian from a site in Alaska. • We analyze how artifacts from each obsidian sources were transported to the site. • We discuss the much-overlooked mid-Holocene component IV clusters. Interior Alaska is a key-region f…
Early Beringian Traditions
The pressure knapping technique develops circa 25,000 cal BP in Northeast Asia and excels at producing highly standardized microblades. Microblade pressure knapping spreads throughout most of Northeast Asia up to the Russian Arctic, and Alaska, in areas where the human presence was unknown. Swan Point CZ4b is the earliest uncontested evidence of human occupation of Alaska, at around 14,000 cal BP. It yields a pressure microblade component produce…
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more »
Suite à la publication d’un travail de synthèse questionnant le caractère anthropique de certaines industries du Pléistocène dans les Amériques (Gómez Coutouly, 2021), notamment au Brésil (sites de Pedra Furada, Vale da Pedra Furada, Sítio do Meio, etc.), Antoine Lourdeau (ce volume) fournit une réponse détaillée apportant des informations complémentaires et remettant en cause certaines des données présentées au sein de mon article. Sa contributi…
Un peuplement antérieur à 20 000 ans en Amérique ? Le caractère anthropique des sites de Pedra Furada (Brésil) en question
The first colonization of the Americas has always been a hotly debated issue. One of the current discussions is the presence of assemblages (and thus human occupation) in the Americas dating from or before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), i. e. before ca. 20.000 years ago. Many archaeologists are skeptical about the presence of humans in the Americas before the LGM, considering that the claim is not yet sustained by hard evidence. Indeed, there ar…
Questioning the Anthropic Nature of Pedra Furada and the Piauí Sites
Many archaeologists are still skeptical about a human presence in the Americas during or before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), considering that the claim is not yet sustained by hard evidence. Boqueirão da Pedra Furada (Brazil) is one of the most famous pre-LGM claims, but the site has so far been considered ambiguous, and similar concerns have been raised about nearby sites. Nonetheless, for E. Boëda and co-workers, who have been working at the…
Chronique d’une mort annoncée ? Quand la Loi de programmation de la recherche sonne le glas de la recherche publique
AvertissementÀ la demande des Nouvelles de l’archéologie, quelques archéologues investi(e)s dans la lutte contre la Loi de programmation de la recherche (Lpr) 2021-2030 ont rédigé, dans une certaine urgence, un texte critique et engagé. D’exhaustivité, il ne sera donc ici nullement question, ni même d’une présentation strictement équilibrée des grands points développés. Au terme d’une présentation générale des enjeux de la LPR (qui concernent l’e…
Knapping, My Child, is Made of Errors”
In Beringia, as in many other parts of the world, stone tools are the main diagnostic cultural artifact for understanding prehistoric societies. The analysis of lithic assemblages is the basis for establishing connections between sites and techno-complexes. Through highlighting major technological trends, archaeologists are able to interpret processes such as cultural continuity and migrations. Here we present a fine-grained analysis of two assem…
Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup'ik Site of Nunalleq (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, Alaska)
Archaeoentomological research at the precontact site of Nunalleq (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD), Southwest Alaska, has identified hundreds of lice and fleas that infested both the human inhabitants of the site and their canine companions. As lice are host specific, staying attached to the host's hair or fur during the totality of their lifecycle, they are generally considered excellent indicators of activity areas. Fleas, however, are r…
Les pointes de projectiles polies du site de Nunalleq (village d'Agaligmiut), sud-ouest de l'Alaska
La fouille du site de Nunalleq (GDN-248) en territoire yup'ik a révélé une succession d'au moins trois niveaux allant vers 1570-1630 après J.C. à 1645-1675 après J.C. correspondant à plusieurs phases de construction et d'habitation d'une maison semi-souterraine de l'époque précontact du village historiquement appelé Agaligmiut. Les occupations du site s'inscrivent dans le cadre historique des Bow-and-Arrow Wars, et le dernier niveau concerne just…
Little Panguingue Creek
The Nenana Valley near Healy, Alaska, has been the site of many decades of prehistoric archaeological research focused on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene records. New research at the Little Panguingue Creek (LPC) site (HEA-038) provides us with important information about Pleistocene–Holocene human activities in the Nenana Valley foothills. This multi-component site is located on a Healy-aged glacial-outwash terrace, overlooking LPC. A ne…
Apogée et déclin de la méthode Yubetsu. Les débitages lamellaires par pression dans le Nord Pacifique lors du peuplement du Nouveau Monde (de la fin du Pléistocène au début de l’Holocène)
Cette recherche se fonde sur un travail doctoral portant sur la diffusion du phénomène lamellaire dans le Nord Pacifique. La progression du débitage de lamelles selon cette technique a été suivie, depuis son origine en Extrême-Orient il y a environ 20 000 ans jusqu’à sa diffusion vers le Canada en passant par la Sibérie et l’Alaska. Les débitages de lamelles par pression sont un marqueur privilégié permettant de mettre en évidence les migrations …
The Emergence of Pressure Knapping Microblade Technology in Northeast Asia
This article is a critical review of published data from the earliest evidence of pressure knapped microblade technology from various regions in Northeast Asia (Siberia, Korea, China, Mongolia, Japan, Sakhalin, and Russian Far East), including discussions not only on published dates, but also on published artifacts (drawings and photos) relating to these assemblages. The issue concerning the geographical and chronological origin of microblade tec…
The Microblade Industry From Swan Point Cultural Zone 4b
Swan Point in central Alaska contains the oldest recognized human occupation in Alaska (Cultural Zone 4b [CZ4b]), dating to circa 14,000 cal BP. This component consists of a microblade and burin industry with clear technological ties to the Siberian Upper Paleolithic Diuktai Culture. Through the systematic use of the Yubetsu method for the production of microblades, Swan Point is technologically more similar to Siberian microblade sites than to l…
A technological approach to obsidian circulation in Prehistoric Central Alaska
Avant-propos au volume La notion de « chaîne opératoire » dans le monde
En 1964 s'est tenu aux Eyzies un symposium franco-américain auquel participèrent notamment Fr. Bordes, D. E. Crabtree et J. Tixier, décrit ensuite comme « une pierre de fondation de l’approche technologique » par C. Perlès en 1991. Un quart de siècle plus tard, faisant écho à cette rencontre, sont publiés les actes du colloque d'Antibes « 25 ans d’études technologiques en Préhistoire. Bilan et perspectives », confirmant la maturité de cette nouve…
Amakomanak
The Amakomanak site (AMR-00095), dated around 7500 BC, is located in the Noatak National Preserve in northwestern Alaska and presents an important microblade component (microblade cores, core tablets, and microblades) made of local chert. During the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, microblade technology is widespread in central Alaska, dominated by Campus-style microblade cores (wedge-shaped microblade cores). The Amakomanak assemblage is…
The Late Pleistocene Microblade Component of Ushki Lake (Kamchatka, Russian Far East)
The Late Pleistocene sites from Ushki Lake (Kamchatka) are among the most important sites for the understanding of the early archaeology of Beringia. This article presents a descriptive technological analysis of the stone-tool productions from Ushki-1 and Ushki-5, focusing on the late Pleistocene microblade component (layer VI). Microblade sites from late Pleistocene northeast Asia and North America represent one of the earliest migration waves t…
Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia
À la recherche des premières occupations préhistoriques de l’Alaska dans la vallée de la Tanana (États-Unis)
Les données archéologiques indiquent que le peuplement du Nouveau Monde est le résultat de diverses vagues migratoires venues d’Asie du nord-est qui se succèdent entre la fin du Pléistocène et tout au long de l’Holocène. Ces données proviennent de plusieurs sites archéologiques bien documentés dans la vallée de la Tanana (notamment Swan Point, Broken Mammoth, Upward Sun River, Mead, Healy Lake et Gerstle River). Ces occupations ont livré des indu…
Anangula--A Major Pressure-Microblade Site in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
The Anangula Core-and-Blade site (eastern Aleutians), discovered in 1938, dates between ca. 9600 and 8000 cal. BP. Anangula is a major site in the archaeology of Alaska and Beringia, and it has important implications to the peopling of the New World due to its chronology, geographic location, and material culture among others. This article focuses on the lithic industry and has two main aims: 1) presenting new research on previously unpublished l…
Pressure Microblade Industries in Pleistocene-Holocene Interior Alaska
The Emergence of Pressure Knapping Microblade Technology in Northeast Asia
This article is a critical review of published data from the earliest evidence of pressure knapped microblade technology from various regions in Northeast Asia (Siberia, Korea, China, Mongolia, Japan, Sakhalin, and Russian Far East), including discussions not only on published dates, but also on published artifacts (drawings and photos) relating to these assemblages. The issue concerning the geographical and chronological origin of microblade tec…
The Microblade Industry From Swan Point Cultural Zone 4b
Swan Point in central Alaska contains the oldest recognized human occupation in Alaska (Cultural Zone 4b [CZ4b]), dating to circa 14,000 cal BP. This component consists of a microblade and burin industry with clear technological ties to the Siberian Upper Paleolithic Diuktai Culture. Through the systematic use of the Yubetsu method for the production of microblades, Swan Point is technologically more similar to Siberian microblade sites than to l…
Questioning the Anthropic Nature of Pedra Furada and the Piauí Sites
Many archaeologists are still skeptical about a human presence in the Americas during or before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), considering that the claim is not yet sustained by hard evidence. Boqueirão da Pedra Furada (Brazil) is one of the most famous pre-LGM claims, but the site has so far been considered ambiguous, and similar concerns have been raised about nearby sites. Nonetheless, for E. Boëda and co-workers, who have been working at the…
Knapping, My Child, is Made of Errors”
In Beringia, as in many other parts of the world, stone tools are the main diagnostic cultural artifact for understanding prehistoric societies. The analysis of lithic assemblages is the basis for establishing connections between sites and techno-complexes. Through highlighting major technological trends, archaeologists are able to interpret processes such as cultural continuity and migrations. Here we present a fine-grained analysis of two assem…
The Late Pleistocene Microblade Component of Ushki Lake (Kamchatka, Russian Far East)
The Late Pleistocene sites from Ushki Lake (Kamchatka) are among the most important sites for the understanding of the early archaeology of Beringia. This article presents a descriptive technological analysis of the stone-tool productions from Ushki-1 and Ushki-5, focusing on the late Pleistocene microblade component (layer VI). Microblade sites from late Pleistocene northeast Asia and North America represent one of the earliest migration waves t…
Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia
Un peuplement antérieur à 20 000 ans en Amérique ? Le caractère anthropique des sites de Pedra Furada (Brésil) en question
The first colonization of the Americas has always been a hotly debated issue. One of the current discussions is the presence of assemblages (and thus human occupation) in the Americas dating from or before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), i. e. before ca. 20.000 years ago. Many archaeologists are skeptical about the presence of humans in the Americas before the LGM, considering that the claim is not yet sustained by hard evidence. Indeed, there ar…
Anangula--A Major Pressure-Microblade Site in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
The Anangula Core-and-Blade site (eastern Aleutians), discovered in 1938, dates between ca. 9600 and 8000 cal. BP. Anangula is a major site in the archaeology of Alaska and Beringia, and it has important implications to the peopling of the New World due to its chronology, geographic location, and material culture among others. This article focuses on the lithic industry and has two main aims: 1) presenting new research on previously unpublished l…
Early Beringian Traditions
The pressure knapping technique develops circa 25,000 cal BP in Northeast Asia and excels at producing highly standardized microblades. Microblade pressure knapping spreads throughout most of Northeast Asia up to the Russian Arctic, and Alaska, in areas where the human presence was unknown. Swan Point CZ4b is the earliest uncontested evidence of human occupation of Alaska, at around 14,000 cal BP. It yields a pressure microblade component produce…
Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup'ik Site of Nunalleq (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, Alaska)
Archaeoentomological research at the precontact site of Nunalleq (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD), Southwest Alaska, has identified hundreds of lice and fleas that infested both the human inhabitants of the site and their canine companions. As lice are host specific, staying attached to the host's hair or fur during the totality of their lifecycle, they are generally considered excellent indicators of activity areas. Fleas, however, are r…
Les pointes de projectiles polies du site de Nunalleq (village d'Agaligmiut), sud-ouest de l'Alaska
La fouille du site de Nunalleq (GDN-248) en territoire yup'ik a révélé une succession d'au moins trois niveaux allant vers 1570-1630 après J.C. à 1645-1675 après J.C. correspondant à plusieurs phases de construction et d'habitation d'une maison semi-souterraine de l'époque précontact du village historiquement appelé Agaligmiut. Les occupations du site s'inscrivent dans le cadre historique des Bow-and-Arrow Wars, et le dernier niveau concerne just…
Avant-propos au volume La notion de « chaîne opératoire » dans le monde
En 1964 s'est tenu aux Eyzies un symposium franco-américain auquel participèrent notamment Fr. Bordes, D. E. Crabtree et J. Tixier, décrit ensuite comme « une pierre de fondation de l’approche technologique » par C. Perlès en 1991. Un quart de siècle plus tard, faisant écho à cette rencontre, sont publiés les actes du colloque d'Antibes « 25 ans d’études technologiques en Préhistoire. Bilan et perspectives », confirmant la maturité de cette nouve…
Amakomanak
The Amakomanak site (AMR-00095), dated around 7500 BC, is located in the Noatak National Preserve in northwestern Alaska and presents an important microblade component (microblade cores, core tablets, and microblades) made of local chert. During the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, microblade technology is widespread in central Alaska, dominated by Campus-style microblade cores (wedge-shaped microblade cores). The Amakomanak assemblage is…
Pressure Microblade Industries in Pleistocene-Holocene Interior Alaska
À la recherche des premières occupations préhistoriques de l’Alaska dans la vallée de la Tanana (États-Unis)
Les données archéologiques indiquent que le peuplement du Nouveau Monde est le résultat de diverses vagues migratoires venues d’Asie du nord-est qui se succèdent entre la fin du Pléistocène et tout au long de l’Holocène. Ces données proviennent de plusieurs sites archéologiques bien documentés dans la vallée de la Tanana (notamment Swan Point, Broken Mammoth, Upward Sun River, Mead, Healy Lake et Gerstle River). Ces occupations ont livré des indu…
Anangula--A Major Pressure-Microblade Site in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
The Anangula Core-and-Blade site (eastern Aleutians), discovered in 1938, dates between ca. 9600 and 8000 cal. BP. Anangula is a major site in the archaeology of Alaska and Beringia, and it has important implications to the peopling of the New World due to its chronology, geographic location, and material culture among others. This article focuses on the lithic industry and has two main aims: 1) presenting new research on previously unpublished l…
The Late Pleistocene Microblade Component of Ushki Lake (Kamchatka, Russian Far East)
The Late Pleistocene sites from Ushki Lake (Kamchatka) are among the most important sites for the understanding of the early archaeology of Beringia. This article presents a descriptive technological analysis of the stone-tool productions from Ushki-1 and Ushki-5, focusing on the late Pleistocene microblade component (layer VI). Microblade sites from late Pleistocene northeast Asia and North America represent one of the earliest migration waves t…
Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia
A technological approach to obsidian circulation in Prehistoric Central Alaska
Avant-propos au volume La notion de « chaîne opératoire » dans le monde
En 1964 s'est tenu aux Eyzies un symposium franco-américain auquel participèrent notamment Fr. Bordes, D. E. Crabtree et J. Tixier, décrit ensuite comme « une pierre de fondation de l’approche technologique » par C. Perlès en 1991. Un quart de siècle plus tard, faisant écho à cette rencontre, sont publiés les actes du colloque d'Antibes « 25 ans d’études technologiques en Préhistoire. Bilan et perspectives », confirmant la maturité de cette nouve…
Amakomanak
The Amakomanak site (AMR-00095), dated around 7500 BC, is located in the Noatak National Preserve in northwestern Alaska and presents an important microblade component (microblade cores, core tablets, and microblades) made of local chert. During the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, microblade technology is widespread in central Alaska, dominated by Campus-style microblade cores (wedge-shaped microblade cores). The Amakomanak assemblage is…
Apogée et déclin de la méthode Yubetsu. Les débitages lamellaires par pression dans le Nord Pacifique lors du peuplement du Nouveau Monde (de la fin du Pléistocène au début de l’Holocène)
Cette recherche se fonde sur un travail doctoral portant sur la diffusion du phénomène lamellaire dans le Nord Pacifique. La progression du débitage de lamelles selon cette technique a été suivie, depuis son origine en Extrême-Orient il y a environ 20 000 ans jusqu’à sa diffusion vers le Canada en passant par la Sibérie et l’Alaska. Les débitages de lamelles par pression sont un marqueur privilégié permettant de mettre en évidence les migrations …
The Emergence of Pressure Knapping Microblade Technology in Northeast Asia
This article is a critical review of published data from the earliest evidence of pressure knapped microblade technology from various regions in Northeast Asia (Siberia, Korea, China, Mongolia, Japan, Sakhalin, and Russian Far East), including discussions not only on published dates, but also on published artifacts (drawings and photos) relating to these assemblages. The issue concerning the geographical and chronological origin of microblade tec…
The Microblade Industry From Swan Point Cultural Zone 4b
Swan Point in central Alaska contains the oldest recognized human occupation in Alaska (Cultural Zone 4b [CZ4b]), dating to circa 14,000 cal BP. This component consists of a microblade and burin industry with clear technological ties to the Siberian Upper Paleolithic Diuktai Culture. Through the systematic use of the Yubetsu method for the production of microblades, Swan Point is technologically more similar to Siberian microblade sites than to l…
Little Panguingue Creek
The Nenana Valley near Healy, Alaska, has been the site of many decades of prehistoric archaeological research focused on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene records. New research at the Little Panguingue Creek (LPC) site (HEA-038) provides us with important information about Pleistocene–Holocene human activities in the Nenana Valley foothills. This multi-component site is located on a Healy-aged glacial-outwash terrace, overlooking LPC. A ne…
Chronique d’une mort annoncée ? Quand la Loi de programmation de la recherche sonne le glas de la recherche publique
AvertissementÀ la demande des Nouvelles de l’archéologie, quelques archéologues investi(e)s dans la lutte contre la Loi de programmation de la recherche (Lpr) 2021-2030 ont rédigé, dans une certaine urgence, un texte critique et engagé. D’exhaustivité, il ne sera donc ici nullement question, ni même d’une présentation strictement équilibrée des grands points développés. Au terme d’une présentation générale des enjeux de la LPR (qui concernent l’e…
Knapping, My Child, is Made of Errors”
In Beringia, as in many other parts of the world, stone tools are the main diagnostic cultural artifact for understanding prehistoric societies. The analysis of lithic assemblages is the basis for establishing connections between sites and techno-complexes. Through highlighting major technological trends, archaeologists are able to interpret processes such as cultural continuity and migrations. Here we present a fine-grained analysis of two assem…
Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup'ik Site of Nunalleq (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, Alaska)
Archaeoentomological research at the precontact site of Nunalleq (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD), Southwest Alaska, has identified hundreds of lice and fleas that infested both the human inhabitants of the site and their canine companions. As lice are host specific, staying attached to the host's hair or fur during the totality of their lifecycle, they are generally considered excellent indicators of activity areas. Fleas, however, are r…
Les pointes de projectiles polies du site de Nunalleq (village d'Agaligmiut), sud-ouest de l'Alaska
La fouille du site de Nunalleq (GDN-248) en territoire yup'ik a révélé une succession d'au moins trois niveaux allant vers 1570-1630 après J.C. à 1645-1675 après J.C. correspondant à plusieurs phases de construction et d'habitation d'une maison semi-souterraine de l'époque précontact du village historiquement appelé Agaligmiut. Les occupations du site s'inscrivent dans le cadre historique des Bow-and-Arrow Wars, et le dernier niveau concerne just…
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more »
Suite à la publication d’un travail de synthèse questionnant le caractère anthropique de certaines industries du Pléistocène dans les Amériques (Gómez Coutouly, 2021), notamment au Brésil (sites de Pedra Furada, Vale da Pedra Furada, Sítio do Meio, etc.), Antoine Lourdeau (ce volume) fournit une réponse détaillée apportant des informations complémentaires et remettant en cause certaines des données présentées au sein de mon article. Sa contributi…
Un peuplement antérieur à 20 000 ans en Amérique ? Le caractère anthropique des sites de Pedra Furada (Brésil) en question
The first colonization of the Americas has always been a hotly debated issue. One of the current discussions is the presence of assemblages (and thus human occupation) in the Americas dating from or before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), i. e. before ca. 20.000 years ago. Many archaeologists are skeptical about the presence of humans in the Americas before the LGM, considering that the claim is not yet sustained by hard evidence. Indeed, there ar…
Questioning the Anthropic Nature of Pedra Furada and the Piauí Sites
Many archaeologists are still skeptical about a human presence in the Americas during or before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), considering that the claim is not yet sustained by hard evidence. Boqueirão da Pedra Furada (Brazil) is one of the most famous pre-LGM claims, but the site has so far been considered ambiguous, and similar concerns have been raised about nearby sites. Nonetheless, for E. Boëda and co-workers, who have been working at the…
Early Beringian Traditions
The pressure knapping technique develops circa 25,000 cal BP in Northeast Asia and excels at producing highly standardized microblades. Microblade pressure knapping spreads throughout most of Northeast Asia up to the Russian Arctic, and Alaska, in areas where the human presence was unknown. Swan Point CZ4b is the earliest uncontested evidence of human occupation of Alaska, at around 14,000 cal BP. It yields a pressure microblade component produce…
Techno-spatial analysis of the obsidian productions at Dry Creek (Interior Alaska)
Interior Alaska is a key-region for studying long-distance circulation/use of obsidian. • This work focuses on Dry Creek, the largest obsidian assemblage in interior Alaska. • The data is the largest published sample size of source obsidian from a site in Alaska. • We analyze how artifacts from each obsidian sources were transported to the site. • We discuss the much-overlooked mid-Holocene component IV clusters. Interior Alaska is a key-region f…
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