Richard E Morlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 263742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard E Morlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard E |
| FAMILY NAME | Morlan |
| SIGNATURE | MORLAN R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Musée de la Civilisation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Tephrochronology, magnetostratigraphy and mammalian faunas of Middle and Early Pleistocene sediments at two sites on the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, Canada
Alluvial and lacustrine sediments exposed beneath late Pleistocene glaciolacustrine silt and clay at two sites along the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, are rich in fossils and contain tephra beds. Surprise Creek tephra (SZt) occurs in the lower part of the alluvial sequence at CRH47 and Little Timber tephra (LTt) is present near the base of the exposure at CRH94. Surprise Creek tephra has a glass fission-track age of 0.17 ± 0.07 Ma and…
Current perspectives on the Pleistocene archaeology of eastern Beringia
Most recent summaries of eastern Beringian (Alaska and Yukon) archaeology present the Nenana complex, beginning 11,500–12,000 14 C yr B.P., as the beginning of the regional archaeological record. Either explicitly or tacitly, these summaries dismiss or ignore a body of older putative evidence of human occupation that may span the late Wisconsin stade and even extend into part of the mid-Wisconsin interstade. This paper summarizes the interpretive…
Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison ( Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada
A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and Dall sheep specimens found on an ancient Mid-Wisconsinan terrain surface at this locality. Similar ring cracks, also interpreted as human-made, have been noted on late-glacial bison bones from Engigstciak, Yukon, and L…
Radiocarbon Updates
New Laboratory A new laboratory has opened in Miami, Florida. Ronald Hatfield and Darden Hood are the Directors of BIOCAMS International, which provides “AMS dating designed exclusively for art, antiques, and materials of potential commercial value”. See http:/www.biocams.com/ for details
A vonlea Phase Winter Fare at Lost Terrace, Upper Missouri River Valley of Montana
The nearly singular subsistence reliance by Late Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the northwestern Plains on bison (Bison bison) is well-established. In a significant departure from that subsistence adaptation, a group of Avonlea Phase people occupying a floodplain of the upper Missouri River during late winter ca. 1200 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP) procured a large number of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). The excavated sample conta…
Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations
Analyses of fossil mammal faunas from 2945 localities in the United States demonstrate that the geographic ranges of individual species shifted at different times, in different directions, and at different rates in response to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. The geographic pattern of faunal provinces was similar for the late Pleistocene and late Holocene, but differing environmental gradients resulted in dissimilar species composition…
Bison Bone Fragmentation and Survivorship
Oxbow Bison Procurement As Seen from the Harder Site, Saskatchewan
A Late Pleistocene Antler Artifact from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada
A modified caribou antler, interpreted as a flintknapper's punch, was collected with hundreds of other Pleistocene mammal bones at Hunker Creek near Dawson City, Yukon Territory. It has yielded a radiocarbon date of 11,350 ± 110 B.P. by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Although the specimen was not found in stratigraphic context, we infer its probable burial history from its radiocarbon age and surface alteration, and its artifactual nature f…
Bison Carpal and Tarsal Measurements
Measurements of bison carpal and tarsal bones from the Sjovold site (EiNs-4), Saskatchewan, are shown to be bimodal. Thetwo modes are inferred to represent a combined group of adult cows and calves and a group of substantially larger adult bulls. Although the cows and calves cannot be separated without supporting evidence concerning age, the carpal and tarsal measurements can be used to distinguish between representatives. of nursery herds and th…
The Pleistocene Archaeology of Beringia
Toward the Definition of Criteria for the Recognition of Artificial Bone Alterations
Cutting, fracturing, flaking, and polishing of bones and other osseous materials may in some instances be interpreted as evidence of former human activity. Such interpretations must avoid confusion with the wide variety of natural processes that alter bones. Reliable criteria are prerequisite to sound inferences based on bone, regardless of whether they have been redeposited or recovered from primary assemblages. Criteria must be defined by means…
Ancient Beringians
Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Archaeology of the Northern Yukon Interior, Eastern Beringia. I. Bonnet Plume Basin
New stratigraphic and chronometric data show that Bonnet Plume Basin, in northeastern Yukon Territory, was glaciated in late Wisconsinan time rather than during an earlier advance of Laurentide ice. This conclusion has important ramifications not only for the interpretation of all-time glacial limits farther north along the Richardson Mountains but also for non-glaciated basins in the Porcupine drainage to the northwest. The late Wisconsinan glac…
Origins and divergence of Aleuts, Eskimos and American Indians
Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory
Etude des collections de fossiles de vertebres du Pleistocene provenant du Yukon septentrional. Certaines de ces collections qui ne proviennent pas de structures font remonter a 50000ans la presence de l'homme dans cette region
Kijik
Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory
Etude des collections de fossiles de vertebres du Pleistocene provenant du Yukon septentrional. Certaines de ces collections qui ne proviennent pas de structures font remonter a 50000ans la presence de l'homme dans cette region
Bison Bone Fragmentation and Survivorship
Bison Carpal and Tarsal Measurements
Measurements of bison carpal and tarsal bones from the Sjovold site (EiNs-4), Saskatchewan, are shown to be bimodal. Thetwo modes are inferred to represent a combined group of adult cows and calves and a group of substantially larger adult bulls. Although the cows and calves cannot be separated without supporting evidence concerning age, the carpal and tarsal measurements can be used to distinguish between representatives. of nursery herds and th…
Oxbow Bison Procurement As Seen from the Harder Site, Saskatchewan
Kijik
A vonlea Phase Winter Fare at Lost Terrace, Upper Missouri River Valley of Montana
The nearly singular subsistence reliance by Late Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the northwestern Plains on bison (Bison bison) is well-established. In a significant departure from that subsistence adaptation, a group of Avonlea Phase people occupying a floodplain of the upper Missouri River during late winter ca. 1200 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP) procured a large number of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). The excavated sample conta…
A Late Pleistocene Antler Artifact from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada
A modified caribou antler, interpreted as a flintknapper's punch, was collected with hundreds of other Pleistocene mammal bones at Hunker Creek near Dawson City, Yukon Territory. It has yielded a radiocarbon date of 11,350 ± 110 B.P. by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Although the specimen was not found in stratigraphic context, we infer its probable burial history from its radiocarbon age and surface alteration, and its artifactual nature f…
Kijik
Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory
Etude des collections de fossiles de vertebres du Pleistocene provenant du Yukon septentrional. Certaines de ces collections qui ne proviennent pas de structures font remonter a 50000ans la presence de l'homme dans cette region
Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Archaeology of the Northern Yukon Interior, Eastern Beringia. I. Bonnet Plume Basin
New stratigraphic and chronometric data show that Bonnet Plume Basin, in northeastern Yukon Territory, was glaciated in late Wisconsinan time rather than during an earlier advance of Laurentide ice. This conclusion has important ramifications not only for the interpretation of all-time glacial limits farther north along the Richardson Mountains but also for non-glaciated basins in the Porcupine drainage to the northwest. The late Wisconsinan glac…
Origins and divergence of Aleuts, Eskimos and American Indians
Ancient Beringians
Toward the Definition of Criteria for the Recognition of Artificial Bone Alterations
Cutting, fracturing, flaking, and polishing of bones and other osseous materials may in some instances be interpreted as evidence of former human activity. Such interpretations must avoid confusion with the wide variety of natural processes that alter bones. Reliable criteria are prerequisite to sound inferences based on bone, regardless of whether they have been redeposited or recovered from primary assemblages. Criteria must be defined by means…
The Pleistocene Archaeology of Beringia
Bison Carpal and Tarsal Measurements
Measurements of bison carpal and tarsal bones from the Sjovold site (EiNs-4), Saskatchewan, are shown to be bimodal. Thetwo modes are inferred to represent a combined group of adult cows and calves and a group of substantially larger adult bulls. Although the cows and calves cannot be separated without supporting evidence concerning age, the carpal and tarsal measurements can be used to distinguish between representatives. of nursery herds and th…
A Late Pleistocene Antler Artifact from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada
A modified caribou antler, interpreted as a flintknapper's punch, was collected with hundreds of other Pleistocene mammal bones at Hunker Creek near Dawson City, Yukon Territory. It has yielded a radiocarbon date of 11,350 ± 110 B.P. by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Although the specimen was not found in stratigraphic context, we infer its probable burial history from its radiocarbon age and surface alteration, and its artifactual nature f…
Bison Bone Fragmentation and Survivorship
Oxbow Bison Procurement As Seen from the Harder Site, Saskatchewan
Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations
Analyses of fossil mammal faunas from 2945 localities in the United States demonstrate that the geographic ranges of individual species shifted at different times, in different directions, and at different rates in response to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. The geographic pattern of faunal provinces was similar for the late Pleistocene and late Holocene, but differing environmental gradients resulted in dissimilar species composition…
Radiocarbon Updates
New Laboratory A new laboratory has opened in Miami, Florida. Ronald Hatfield and Darden Hood are the Directors of BIOCAMS International, which provides “AMS dating designed exclusively for art, antiques, and materials of potential commercial value”. See http:/www.biocams.com/ for details
A vonlea Phase Winter Fare at Lost Terrace, Upper Missouri River Valley of Montana
The nearly singular subsistence reliance by Late Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the northwestern Plains on bison (Bison bison) is well-established. In a significant departure from that subsistence adaptation, a group of Avonlea Phase people occupying a floodplain of the upper Missouri River during late winter ca. 1200 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP) procured a large number of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). The excavated sample conta…
Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison ( Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada
A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and Dall sheep specimens found on an ancient Mid-Wisconsinan terrain surface at this locality. Similar ring cracks, also interpreted as human-made, have been noted on late-glacial bison bones from Engigstciak, Yukon, and L…
Current perspectives on the Pleistocene archaeology of eastern Beringia
Most recent summaries of eastern Beringian (Alaska and Yukon) archaeology present the Nenana complex, beginning 11,500–12,000 14 C yr B.P., as the beginning of the regional archaeological record. Either explicitly or tacitly, these summaries dismiss or ignore a body of older putative evidence of human occupation that may span the late Wisconsin stade and even extend into part of the mid-Wisconsin interstade. This paper summarizes the interpretive…
Tephrochronology, magnetostratigraphy and mammalian faunas of Middle and Early Pleistocene sediments at two sites on the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, Canada
Alluvial and lacustrine sediments exposed beneath late Pleistocene glaciolacustrine silt and clay at two sites along the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, are rich in fossils and contain tephra beds. Surprise Creek tephra (SZt) occurs in the lower part of the alluvial sequence at CRH47 and Little Timber tephra (LTt) is present near the base of the exposure at CRH94. Surprise Creek tephra has a glass fission-track age of 0.17 ± 0.07 Ma and…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Pleistocene (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · Paleontology (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (6 works)