title: A terminal Pleistocene child cremation and residential structure from eastern Beringia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. bapotter@alaska.edu
authors.forename: Ben A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Potter
authors.forename: Joel D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Irish
authors.forename: Joshua D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Reuther
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gelvin-Reymiller
authors.forename: Vance T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Holliday
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D000818:Animals; D001106:Archaeology; D002048:Burial / Q000266:history*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D055700:Cremation / Q000266:history*; D003469:Culture; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans