Talk:Swan Point Archaeological Site
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merger - good idea!
[edit]Yes, I think that merger with Swan Point, Alaska is a good idea. Eio-cos (talk) 01:02, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Orphaned references in Swan Point Archaeological Site
[edit]I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Swan Point Archaeological Site's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "West":
- From Broken Mammoth: West, Frederick Hadleigh., and Constance F. West. American Beginnings: the Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1996. 313-317 Print.
- From Swan Point, Alaska: West, Frederick Hadleigh., and Palaeoecology of Beringia. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1996. 319-323 Print.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:53, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
outdated information
[edit]I noticed that the chronology of in this article is confused and/or outdated. Also, it is not true that no other mammoth remains were found beyond tusk ivory; there were also bones from a juvenile and neonate, including ribs. The CZ4b adult tusk was recently re-dated and found to match the rest of the CZ4b component, including the other mammoth remains. Together, the evidence now suggests hunting rather than scavenging.
Here is the most recent chronology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/swan-point-site-alaska-the-chronology-of-a-multicomponent-archaeological-site-in-eastern-beringia/24F9C5283F0E8E0FFAEA8ECBC5CF309C
And here is an open-access article challenging the notion of scavenging: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk0818
Sorry, I don't have the time or bandwidth to actually edit this article myself, but I'm hoping this will provide the tools for someone else to do it. ~2026-76438-3 (talk) 11:14, 4 February 2026 (UTC)