Archaeology in the Aleut zone of Alaska : some recent research / edited by Don E. Dumond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dumond, Don E., 1929-

Series:

University of Oregon anthropological papers ; no. 58.

University of Oregon anthropological papers ; no. 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aleuts--Antiquities.

Aleuts.

Indians of North America--Alaska--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Alaska.

Antiquities.

Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--Antiquities.

Aleutian Islands (Alaska).

Alaska Peninsula (Alaska)--Antiquities.

Alaska Peninsula (Alaska).

Shumagin Islands (Alaska)--Antiquities.

Shumagin Islands (Alaska).

Alaska--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

vi, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Eugene, Or.] : Dept. of Anthropology and Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, 2001.

Contents:

An early blade site in the eastern Aleutians / Don E. Dumond and Richard A. Knecht

The Margaret Bay site and eastern Aleutian prehistory / Richard A. Knecht, Richard S. Davis and Gary A. Carver

Sea mammal hunting and the Neoglacial: environmental change and subsistence technology at Margaret Bay / Brian Davis

Ethnohistorical archaeology at the Reese Bay site, Unalaska Island / Douglas W. Veltre and Allen P. McCartney

Catastrophic environmental change and the middle Holocene transition in the Aleutian Islands / Owen K. Mason

Bringing the house down: modeling construction and deconstruction of Aleut semisubterranean houses / L. Lewis Johnson and Elizabeth G. Wilmerding

The Russell Creek manifestation of the Arctic small tool tradition of the western Alaska Peninsula / Herbert D.G. Maschner and James W. Jordan

Regional interaction as seen from the eastern Aleutians / Kathryn M. Holland

Korovinski: archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations of a pre- and post-contact Aleut and Russian settlement on Atka Island / Douglas W. Veltre

Volcanic ash stratigraphy for Adak Island, central Aleutian Archipelago / Matthew O'Leary

Archaeological surveys in the Near Islands: Attu Island and Shemya Island / Christine Lefevre, Dixie West and Debra G. Corbett

Prehistoric village organization in the western Aleutians / Debra G. Corbett, Dixie West and Christine Lefevre

A prehistoric sequence for the

eastern Aleutians / Richard A. Knecht and Richard S. Davis

Toward a (yet) newer view of the (pre)history of the Aleutians / Don E. Dumond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

49046677