Jacques Cinq-Mars Born: 1941/42 (died 27 November 2021, aged 79) was a Canadian archaeologist specializing in Canada, especially

Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

. Cinq-Mars excavated the

Bluefish Caves Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada, located southwest of the Vuntut Gwichin community of Old Crow, from which a jaw bone of a Yukon horse has been radiocarbon dated to 24,000 years before present (BP). There are three smal ...

site in the Old Crow area from 1977 to 1987. His careful research showed the presence of humans in the Americas long before Clovis. His dates for the site are around 24,000 BP. Cinq-Mars began his work in the Old Crow area early in the 1970s. Although the Clovis-first hypothesis has substantially fallen out of favor, some archaeologists question the 24,000 BP date for human presence at Blue Fish Caves.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 He was on the staff of the

Canadian Museum of History The Canadian Museum of History (french: Musée canadien de l’histoire) is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of C ...

. He is survived by his widow Andrée Favre, and his two sons, Marc and Eric Cinq-Mars.

Selected publications

* Cinq-Mars, Jaques. 1979. “Bluefish Cave I: A Late Pleistocene Western Beringian Cave Deposit in the Northern Yukon,” ''Canadian Journal of Archaeology ''3: 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 in ''The 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.

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Year of birth missing Place of birth missing 1940s births 2021 deaths Canadian archaeologists {{Canada-scientist-stub