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On 5 Apr 2004 17:05:51 -0700, Dar_83001@yahoo.com (Daryl
Habel) wrote:

>The 24,500 year old mammoth bone interpreted as a bone core-tool with
>a refitted bifacially trimmed flake is published with photos and
>drawings in:
>
>Cinq-Mars J and Morlan RE (1999). Bluefish Caves and Old Crow Basin: A
>New Rapport. In: R. Bonnichsen & KL Turnmire (eds.) Ice Age Peoples of
>North America: Environments, Origins and Adaptations of the First
>Americans. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press - Centre for the
>Study of the First Americans. pp. 200-212.
>
>There is, at Bluefish Caves, some evidence consisting of small pieces
>of stone interpreted as retouching debris and cutmarked bones
>scattered about in the loess dating to between ca. 19-13 kyr BP, as
>well as more solid evidence of the Paleo-Arctic microblade tradition,
>in the form of whole artifacts dating to the same period as those
>found in Alaska (ca. 11-10 kyr BP).  This evidence is not fully
>documented in the above reference, but I'm sure Cinq-Mars has
>published some articles on these, also.
>
>But....there are no human fossils from Bluefish Caves.  Adovasio calls
>it "one of those [sites] that will not go away".  My opinion
>(worthless) is that it is pre-Clovis, but who knows by how much?

Thanks Dar for uploading the material in the Aux group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sciarchauxilliary/files/Papers/PDF/
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 I would reply to you there but Yahoo is definitely on the
fritz. From what I am reading the thinking has not changed.
Bluefish and Old Crow lie on the far eastern boundary of
Beringia and as such was the farthest east site that was
accessible from 30 kya to ~12 kya.

  The dating in the 28 kya range seems to coincide with a
period of warmer temperatures, but that ice-free corridor
was still closed. During the cooler period that followed, to
18 kya, do we estimate that these hunters retreated south,
perished only to return 15kya (or others return)?