Arctic archaeology suffers from a series of unfortunate conjunctures that make accurate and reliable dating of the prehistory of circumpolar North America problematic. Through the late-prehistoric Yup’ik site of Nunalleq, this paper explores a novel approach to dating archaeological sites in the circumpolar north. Presenting data from a peat sequence associated with the archaeological site, we examine if a combination of paleoenvironmental analyses (new insect, plant macrofossil and macroscopic charcoal data, and previously published palynological data), radiocarbon dating, and Bayesian modeling can generate high-resolution chronologies for archaeological sites. The results indicate that archaeological events are resolvable in the paleoenvironmental record and that the timing of such events illustrates a striking concordance with those derived from archaeological data. This paper highlights and recommends how paleoenvironmental analyses can be deployed towards improving the chronologies of Inuit and pre-Inuit archaeology.

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来自阿拉斯加Nunalleq的古环境分析说明了一种新的手段来确定因纽特人和因纽特人的考古学

北极考古学遭受了一系列不幸的紧要关头，使准确和可靠的年代确定为北极洲的极地史前问题。本文通过史前晚期的努皮莱克（Nunalleq）尤皮克（Yup'ik）遗址，探索了一种新的方法来确定沿极北的考古遗址的年代。提出与考古遗址相关的泥炭序列的数据，我们检查古环境分析（新昆虫，植物大化石和宏观木炭数据以及先前发表的孢粉学数据），放射性碳年代测定和贝叶斯建模的组合是否可以生成高分辨率年表用于考古现场。结果表明，考古事件在古环境记录中是可解决的，并且此类事件的发生时间与从考古数据中得出的事件具有惊人的一致性。本文重点介绍并建议了如何进行古环境分析，以改善因纽特人和因纽特人之前的考古年代。