Jacques Cinq-Mars (1941 or 1942 — 27 November 2021, aged 79) was a Canadian archaeologist specializing in Canada, especiallyYukon.[1] Cinq-Mars excavated theBluefish Caves site in the Old Crow area from 1977 to 1987.[2] His careful research showed the presence of humans in the Americas long beforeClovis.[3] His dates for the site are around 24,000 BP.[4][5] Cinq-Mars began his work in the Old Crow area early in the 1970s.[6] Although theClovis-first hypothesis has substantially fallen out of favor, some archaeologists question the 24,000 BP date for human presence at Blue Fish Caves.[7]
Cinq-Mars, Jacques. 1979. "Bluefish Cave I: A Late Pleistocene Western Beringian Cave Deposit in the Northern Yukon,"Canadian Journal of Archaeology3: 1–32.
Morlan, Richard E., and Jacques Cinq-Mars. 1983. "Ancient Beringians: Human Occupations in the Late Pleistocene of Alaska and the Yukon Territory," pp. 53–382 inThe Paleoecology of Beringia, edited by D. M. Hopkins, J. V. Mathews, C. E. Schweger, and S. B. Young. Academic Press: New York.
Cinq-Mars J. and Morlan RE. 1999. "Bluefish Caves and Old Crow Basin: A New Rapport," pp. 200–212 in Ice Age Peoples of North America Environments, Origins, and Adaptations of the First Americans, edited by R. Bonnichsen and K. L. Turnmire. Center for the Study of the First Americans. Oregon State University Press.
^Kathryn E. Krasinski and John C. Blong. 2020. "Unresolved Questions about Site Formation, Provenience, and the Impact of Natural Processes on Bone at the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory,"Arctic Anthropology 57(1): 1 1-21. doi: 10.3368/aa.57.1.1
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