Geoarchaeological insights from Indian Sands, a Late Pleistocene site on the southern northwest coast, USA

摘要

Geoarchaeological investigations of site 35CU67C at the Indian Sands locality, along Oregon's southern coast, provide many insights useful for considering various aspects of a Late Pleistocene coastal migration hypothesis. The geographic and geomorphic setting of terminal Pleistocene human occupation at Indian Sands provides important contextual examples that may aid in the discovery of other early coastal sites. During the Terminal Pleistocene, hunter-gatherers exploited naturally occurring sources of chert toolstone available at the Indian Sands locality.