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Science 9 May 1986:
Vol. 232. no. 4751, pp. 749 - 751
DOI: 10.1126/science.232.4751.749
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New Dates on Northern Yukon Artifacts: Holocene Not Upper Pleistocene

D. E. NELSON 1, RICHARD E. MORLAN 2, J. S. VOGEL 1, J. R. SOUTHON 1, and C. R. HARINGTON 3

1 Archeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
2 National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0M8.
3 National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0M8.

New radiocarbon dates on four artifacts that were thought to provide evidence for human occupation of the Yukon Territory during the upper Pleistocene indicate that all four are of late Holocene age. The original radiocarbon age obtained for one artifact (the so-called "Old Crow flesher") was in error by almost 26,000 years.

Submitted on October 9, 1985
Accepted on February 3, 1986


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