David R Yesner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3608342 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David R Yesner |
| NOMBRES | David R |
| APELLIDO | Yesner |
| FIRMA | YESNER D R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 605 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Late Pleistocene marine resources from the Bering Glacier Foreland and human coastal migration in the northern Gulf of Alaska region
Recent research on the Bering Glacier forelands in the northern Gulf of Alaska provides new insights into late Pleistocene/early Holocene shorelines, providing a favorable route for human migration as early as ~16,000 cal yr BP. This route included an irregular coastline with embayments and islands offering protection from the open ocean; edible marine invertebrates dating from 15,000 to 5,500 cal yr BP; and marine vertebrates dating as early as …
Seasonality and Resource "Stress" Among Hunter-Gatherers
Evidence for episodic seasonal population stress is widespread among hunter-gatherers in arctic, temperate, and arid regions where resource seasonality existed. Greater sedentism, larger populations, and the resulting greater intensification of local resource exploitation among such societies elevated seasonal resource imbalances to a different level; technological and settlement pattern solutions were sought, but their effect was limited. Archae…
The Settlement of the American Continents
Douglas W. Veltre
David R. Yesner David R. Yesner, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage, BMH 209, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA; dryesner{at}uaa.alaska.edu
Bibliography of Douglas W. Veltre
Stable isotope chemistry, population histories and Late Prehistoric subsistence change in the Aleutian Islands
Patterns of faunal extinction and paleoclimatic change from mid-Holocene mammoth and polar bear remains, Pribilof Islands, Alaska
Cave, a lava tube cave on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs, has recently produced a mid-Holocene vertebrate faunal assemblage including woolly mammoth, polar bear, caribou, and Arctic fox. Several dates on the mammoth remains converge on 5700 14 C yr BP. These dates, ~ 2300 yr younger than mammoth dates previously published from the Pribilof Islands, make these the youngest remains of proboscideans, and of non-extinct Quaternary megafauna, recove…
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Subarctic and Subantarctic Zones
In 1975, Allen P. McCartney proposed that Aleutian and Fuegian populations shared a number of common subsistence and technology features, resulting from convergence in adaptation to maritime resources in cold archipelagos. As a result of recent excavations on the north Beagle Channel in Argentine Tierra del Fuego, as well as reconsideration of the historic and ethnographic records, it is now possible to flesh out such a comparative analysis in mu…
Stable isotope analysis of human bone and ethnohistoric subsistence patterns in Tierra del Fuego
Microblades and Migrations
Early microblade assemblages in greater Beringia have been the focus of intense scrutiny because of their relevance to the problem of the peopling of the Americas. Although microblades have been produced in northeast Asia for more than 20,000 years, their manufacture is intensified in the terminal Pleistocene, coincident with the earliest definitive peopling of Beringia. In Alaska, where their manufacture was concentrated in the earliest Holocene…
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Introduction: The World at the End of the Last Ice Age L.G. Straus. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Africa and the Near East: L. Straus. At the Transition: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Southern Africa P.J. Mitchell, et al. Plus Ca Change: The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northeastern Africa A.E. Close. The Impact of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Climatic Changes on Humans in Southwestern Asia O. Bar-Yosef…
Human Adaptation at the Pleistocene—Holocene Boundary (circa 13,000 to 8,000 bp) in Eastern Beringia
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Out of the North
preoccupied with western expansion on the prairies, with little interest in the North. Policy at the time was reactive to pressures by the churches or the Hudson's Bay Company. It is not until the discovery of oil on the Mackenzie in 1920 that the federal government begins to change its policy orientation. Thomas Stone's focus is on the Klondike. His interest is "Urbanism, Law and Public Order." He contrasts the differences in law and order on th…
Man on the Rim
MAN ON THE RIM: THE PEOPLING OF THE PACIFIC, by ALAN THORNE and ROBERT RAYMOND." Australian Archaeology, 29(1), pp. 82–83
Moose Hunters of the Boreal Forest? A Re-examination of Subsistence Patterns in the Western Subarctic
Many descriptions of lifestyles in the western subarctic region have been built on the premise that the hunting and use of moose was a central feature of those lifestyles. While this may be true, it is worthwhile to question the time depth that underlies this adaptation and the degree to which it may have applied to former societies inhabiting the boreal forest region. Any such effort must include an analysis of available faunal remains from arch…
On Maglemosian Seasonality
Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers
This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental feature of the hunting and gathering way of life and has been hypothesized to have played a major role in the evolution of language, intelligence, and the sexual division of labor. The very general question that guided the research is: What factors are responsible for the evolution …
Archeology and Optimal Foraging Theory
Landlocked” Salmon and Early Holocene Lacustrine Adaptation in Southwestern Maine
While early Holocene sites are rare in northeastern North America, and by implication early Holocene populations were relatively low, Middle Archaic sites (7000–9000 BP) are particularly abundant in the “Lakes” region of southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire. Since sea level in this region (western Gulf of Maine) was as much as 50 m below present at that time, site abundance in the “Lakes” region may be explained by an unusual set of …
Population pressure in coastal environments
The question of the origins and development of maritime adaptations has engendered much recent debate concerning the relative roles of environmental change, technological evolution, population growth, and various cultural factors in this process. A major problem involves successfully testing causative explanations based on these factors on archaeological data. This paper presents a research design which will allow a test of one of these factors —…
On Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations
(1982). Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations: Some New Perspectives. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 97-99
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers
This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental feature of the hunting and gathering way of life and has been hypothesized to have played a major role in the evolution of language, intelligence, and the sexual division of labor. The very general question that guided the research is: What factors are responsible for the evolution …
Maritime Hunter-Gatherers
In a recent discussion of prehistoric developments in coastal Peru, Osborn has drawn attention to the "uniqueness" of the Peruvian littoral in providing large amounts of nutrients to support locally high population densities and a base for the development of Peruvian civilization. This bounteous resource base is contrasted with that of other maritime environments, which are seen to be relatively unproductive. The present article takes issue with …
Research and Development in the Stone Age
The transition from Pleistocene to Archaic/Mesolithic is analyzed in broad ecological terms. The trend throughout most of the Pleistocene toward increasing technological diversity is linked to the expectable ecological tendency to increase resource reliability. The advent of culture enabled man to increase resource reliability by diversifying his resource base. Resources were largely of the K-selected type, economical to procure with simple techn…
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Introduction: The World at the End of the Last Ice Age L.G. Straus. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Africa and the Near East: L. Straus. At the Transition: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Southern Africa P.J. Mitchell, et al. Plus Ca Change: The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northeastern Africa A.E. Close. The Impact of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Climatic Changes on Humans in Southwestern Asia O. Bar-Yosef…
Microblades and Migrations
Early microblade assemblages in greater Beringia have been the focus of intense scrutiny because of their relevance to the problem of the peopling of the Americas. Although microblades have been produced in northeast Asia for more than 20,000 years, their manufacture is intensified in the terminal Pleistocene, coincident with the earliest definitive peopling of Beringia. In Alaska, where their manufacture was concentrated in the earliest Holocene…
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Moose Hunters of the Boreal Forest? A Re-examination of Subsistence Patterns in the Western Subarctic
Many descriptions of lifestyles in the western subarctic region have been built on the premise that the hunting and use of moose was a central feature of those lifestyles. While this may be true, it is worthwhile to question the time depth that underlies this adaptation and the degree to which it may have applied to former societies inhabiting the boreal forest region. Any such effort must include an analysis of available faunal remains from arch…
Stable isotope chemistry, population histories and Late Prehistoric subsistence change in the Aleutian Islands
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Population pressure in coastal environments
The question of the origins and development of maritime adaptations has engendered much recent debate concerning the relative roles of environmental change, technological evolution, population growth, and various cultural factors in this process. A major problem involves successfully testing causative explanations based on these factors on archaeological data. This paper presents a research design which will allow a test of one of these factors —…
Archeology and Optimal Foraging Theory
On Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers
On Preagricultural Coastal Adaptations
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Subarctic and Subantarctic Zones
In 1975, Allen P. McCartney proposed that Aleutian and Fuegian populations shared a number of common subsistence and technology features, resulting from convergence in adaptation to maritime resources in cold archipelagos. As a result of recent excavations on the north Beagle Channel in Argentine Tierra del Fuego, as well as reconsideration of the historic and ethnographic records, it is now possible to flesh out such a comparative analysis in mu…
Caribou metapodial shaft splinter technology
Cold and wet
William Fitzhugh, ed. Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Company, x + 405 pp. Tables, figures, maps, references, and indices. $29.50
Culture and nature
Michael A. Jochim. Hunter‐gatherer Subsistence and Settlement. New York: Academic Press, 1976. xvii + 206 pp. Tables, figures, maps, references and subject index. $13.50. W. Raymond Wood and R. Bruce McMillan, eds. Prehistoric Man and His Environments: A Case Study in the Ozark Highland. New York: Academic Press, 1976. xiv + 271 pp. Tables, figures, plates, maps, references, appendices, index. $19.50
Animal bones and human behavior
A.T. Clason, ed. Archaeozoological Studies. New York: American Elsevier (Amsterdam: North‐Holland), 1975. xvi + 477 pp. List of participants, index, figures, tables, and chapter references. English (29 articles), German (16 articles), and French (3 articles). $45.00 cloth. B.D. Smith. “Middle Mississippi Exploitation of Animal Populations.” Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (Museum of Anthropology) Anthropological Paper no. 57, 1975. xii + 233 pp…
Caribou metapodial shaft splinter technology
Maritime Hunter-Gatherers
In a recent discussion of prehistoric developments in coastal Peru, Osborn has drawn attention to the "uniqueness" of the Peruvian littoral in providing large amounts of nutrients to support locally high population densities and a base for the development of Peruvian civilization. This bounteous resource base is contrasted with that of other maritime environments, which are seen to be relatively unproductive. The present article takes issue with …
Research and Development in the Stone Age
The transition from Pleistocene to Archaic/Mesolithic is analyzed in broad ecological terms. The trend throughout most of the Pleistocene toward increasing technological diversity is linked to the expectable ecological tendency to increase resource reliability. The advent of culture enabled man to increase resource reliability by diversifying his resource base. Resources were largely of the K-selected type, economical to procure with simple techn…
On Preagricultural Coastal Adaptations
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations
(1982). Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations: Some New Perspectives. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 97-99
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
On Yesner's 'Maritime Hunter-Gatherers
On Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers
Landlocked” Salmon and Early Holocene Lacustrine Adaptation in Southwestern Maine
While early Holocene sites are rare in northeastern North America, and by implication early Holocene populations were relatively low, Middle Archaic sites (7000–9000 BP) are particularly abundant in the “Lakes” region of southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire. Since sea level in this region (western Gulf of Maine) was as much as 50 m below present at that time, site abundance in the “Lakes” region may be explained by an unusual set of …
Population pressure in coastal environments
The question of the origins and development of maritime adaptations has engendered much recent debate concerning the relative roles of environmental change, technological evolution, population growth, and various cultural factors in this process. A major problem involves successfully testing causative explanations based on these factors on archaeological data. This paper presents a research design which will allow a test of one of these factors —…
Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers
This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental feature of the hunting and gathering way of life and has been hypothesized to have played a major role in the evolution of language, intelligence, and the sexual division of labor. The very general question that guided the research is: What factors are responsible for the evolution …
Archeology and Optimal Foraging Theory
On Maglemosian Seasonality
Man on the Rim
MAN ON THE RIM: THE PEOPLING OF THE PACIFIC, by ALAN THORNE and ROBERT RAYMOND." Australian Archaeology, 29(1), pp. 82–83
Moose Hunters of the Boreal Forest? A Re-examination of Subsistence Patterns in the Western Subarctic
Many descriptions of lifestyles in the western subarctic region have been built on the premise that the hunting and use of moose was a central feature of those lifestyles. While this may be true, it is worthwhile to question the time depth that underlies this adaptation and the degree to which it may have applied to former societies inhabiting the boreal forest region. Any such effort must include an analysis of available faunal remains from arch…
Out of the North
preoccupied with western expansion on the prairies, with little interest in the North. Policy at the time was reactive to pressures by the churches or the Hudson's Bay Company. It is not until the discovery of oil on the Mackenzie in 1920 that the federal government begins to change its policy orientation. Thomas Stone's focus is on the Klondike. His interest is "Urbanism, Law and Public Order." He contrasts the differences in law and order on th…
Human Adaptation at the Pleistocene—Holocene Boundary (circa 13,000 to 8,000 bp) in Eastern Beringia
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Introduction: The World at the End of the Last Ice Age L.G. Straus. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Africa and the Near East: L. Straus. At the Transition: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Southern Africa P.J. Mitchell, et al. Plus Ca Change: The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northeastern Africa A.E. Close. The Impact of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Climatic Changes on Humans in Southwestern Asia O. Bar-Yosef…
Microblades and Migrations
Early microblade assemblages in greater Beringia have been the focus of intense scrutiny because of their relevance to the problem of the peopling of the Americas. Although microblades have been produced in northeast Asia for more than 20,000 years, their manufacture is intensified in the terminal Pleistocene, coincident with the earliest definitive peopling of Beringia. In Alaska, where their manufacture was concentrated in the earliest Holocene…
Stable isotope analysis of human bone and ethnohistoric subsistence patterns in Tierra del Fuego
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