@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004464,
 author = {小谷, 凱宣 and Kotani, Yoshinobu},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Aug},
 note = {This paper reviews recent developments of studies on prehistoric
cultures and paleoecological conditions in Beringia,
formerly exposed land mass in the Bering Strait region during the
Late Wisconsin period. Noteworthy is the implication that the
vast expanses of the Circumpolar region were mainly steppetundra,
providing favorable conditions for large mammals and,
eventually, for man, and only locally covered by glaciers on high
mountains and by boreal forest along major river systems.
The Paleoindian tradition, which is widely distributed from
the Greater Southwest and Plains to the Eastern Woodlands,
has been regarded as the oldest cultural manifestation in the
New World. The American Paleoarctic tradition, radiocarbon
dated from ca. 11,500 to 8000 B.P. and regarded as the earliest
in Beringia, chronologically parallels the former and is represented
by two internally heterogeneous groups of sites in Alaska.
Cultural materials recently reported from the Meadowcroft
Rock-shelter and other sites in the Americas are radiocarbon dated
from ca. 20,000 to 14,000 B.P. and characterized by blade and
point manufacturing techniques as well as unifacial flaking.
The presence of these techniques temporally prior to both the
Paleoindian and American Paleoarctic traditions indicates some
cultural relations with the Upper Paleolithic culture in Eastern
Siberia and is suggestive of the cultural basis from which these
two traditions developed locally in North America. In the light
of these new data, it is necessary to reconsider the traditional
view that the Paleoindian tradition is the oldest in the New World.},
 pages = {489--520},
 title = {ベリンジアからみた新大陸文化起源の諸問題},
 volume = {8},
 year = {1983},
 yomi = {コタニ, ヨシノブ}
}