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Blood Residues on Fluted Points from Eastern Beringia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas H. Loy  and
E. James Dixon
Thomas H. Loy
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
E. James Dixon
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Natural History, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205
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Abstract

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 Pleistocene mammals in arctic and subarctic North America. This suggests the northern fluted-point assemblages are part of the Paleoindian big-game hunting tradition that was widespread in North America at the close of the Pleistocene.

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Résumé

Residuos de sangre han sido detectados microscopica y quimicamente en puntas de proyectil aflautadas del este de Beringia. De estos residuos se ha identificado una variedad de especies de mamíferos, incluyendo mamut (Mammutus primigenius), usando métodos de bioquímica y biología molecular. Esta es la primera vez en que se ha encontrado una asociación una asociación directa entre el uso de puntas aflautadas y predatión humana de fauna extinta y otros mamíferos pleistocénicos en Norteamérica ártica y subdrtica. Esto sugiere que los conjuntos septentrionales de puntas aflautadas son parte de la traditión de cazadores mayores Paleoindios que se extendió a través de Norteamérica al final del Pleistoceno.

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American Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 21 - 46
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1998

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