Plant phylogeography using ancient DNA to investigate archaeological mobility
Murchie TJ. 2015. Plant phylogeography using ancient DNA to investigate archaeological mobility. University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Investigating the Antiquity of Inter-Regional Contact between Southern Yukon and the Northern Northwest Coast through an Ancient DNA Analysis of Cryogenic Wooden Biofacts Recovered from Alpine Archaeological Sites in the Northwestern Subarctic. The antiquity of contact between Eyak-Tlingit in Alaska and Athabaskans in Yukon is poorly understood. Archaeological evidence of inter-regional interaction is currently confined to the Late Period. The discovery of a cryogenically preserved stick (willow) from the Kluane Icefields may represent the region’s earliest evidence of glacial travel. Ancient DNA was used to assess the specimen’s origin based on a analysis of modern Salix distributed on either side of the Saint Elias Range.
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Murchie, Tyler
- Date of Issue
- 2015-07
- Publisher
- University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Units
- WRST
- Keywords
- aDNA, antiquity, Archaeology, Athabaskans, Canada, Champagne-Aishihik First Nations, contact, Cultural Resources, Ethnography, Eyak, First Nations, Glaciers, ice patches, Kluane, Kluane First Nations, paleogenetics, Phylogeography, Saint Elias, Southeastern Alaska, Southern Yukon, St. Elias, Stable Isotopes, thesis, Tlingit, USA, Willow, wooden artifacts, Yak-Tat Kwaan, Yakutat