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Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago

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ID23325931
AuthorsLoren G Davis (0000-0003-0283-9822, Oregon State University, corresponding author), David B Madsen (0000-0002-4477-103X, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78758, USA.), Lorena Becerra-Valdivia (0000-0001-5501-5347, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.), T F G Higham (0000-0002-5949-598X, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.), David A Sisson (0000-0001-9467-3828, Bureau of Land Management, Cottonwood Field Office, 2 Butte Drive, Cottonwood, ID 83522, USA.), Sarah M Skinner (0000-0002-9690-2150, Oregon State University), Daniel Stueber (0000-0002-4355-544X, University of Victoria), Alexander J Nyers (0000-0003-4735-0553, Northwest Archaeometrics, P.O. Box 2427, Corvallis, OR 97339, USA.), Amanda Keen‐Zebert (0000-0002-8684-7004, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512, USA.), Christina M Neudorf (0000-0002-4449-2655, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512, USA.), Melissa Cheyney (0000-0001-5672-3353, Oregon State University), Masami Izuho (0000-0002-6598-1562, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Fumie Iizuka (0000-0001-7746-6827, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Samuel R Burns (0000-0003-3549-2829, Oregon State University), Clinton W Epps (0000-0001-6577-1840, Oregon State University), Samuel C Willis (0000-0002-2447-2083, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department), I Buvit (0000-0002-7011-8659, Oregon State University)
Year2019
Volume365
Issue6456
Pages891-897
Publication date2019-08-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511
PublisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1126/science.aax9830
PMID31467216
OpenAlexW2970552507
LanguageEN
Citations received74
References cited59

The early occupation of America The Cooper's Ferry archaeological site in western North America has provided evidence for the pattern and time course of the early peopling of the Americas. Davis et al. describe new evidence of human activity from this site, including stemmed projectile points. Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis indicate an age between 16,560 and 15,280 years before present. Humans therefore arrived in the Americas before an inland ice-free corridor had opened, so a Pacific coastal route was the probable entry route. The stemmed projectile points closely resemble those found in Upper Paleolithic Japan, also supporting the hypothesis of a coastal route. Science , this issue p. 891

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