Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
Science. 2011 Feb 25;331(6020):1058-62. doi: 10.1126/science.1201581.
The dearth of human remains and residential sites has constrained inquiry into Beringian lifeways at the transition of the late Pleistocene-early Holocene. We report on human skeletal remains and a residential structure from central Alaska dated to ~11,500 calendar years ago. The remains are from a ~3-year-old child who was cremated in a pit within a semisubterranean house. The burial-cremation and house have exceptional integrity and preservation and exhibit similarities and differences to both Siberian Upper Paleolithic and North American Paleoindian features.
在更新世晚期至全新世早期的过渡时期，由于人类遗骸和居住遗址的匮乏，限制了对北美人生活方式的研究。我们报告了在阿拉斯加中部发现的人类骨骼遗骸和一处居住结构，其年代约为 11500 年前。这些遗骸来自一个约 3 岁的孩子，他被火化在一个半地下房屋的坑里。埋葬-火化和房屋具有极好的完整性和保存性，与西伯利亚旧石器时代晚期和北美的古印第安人特征既有相似之处，也有不同之处。
