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The people before : the geology, paleoecology and archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska / Dixie West ... [and others].

LIBRA F951 .P387 2012
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
West, Dixie Lee.
Series:
BAR international series ; 2322.
BAR international series ; 2322
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Paleoecology.
Geology.
Excavations (Archaeology).
Adak Island (Alaska)--Antiquities.
Adak Island (Alaska).
Excavations (Archaeology)--Alaska--Adak Island.
Geology--Alaska--Adak Island.
Paleoecology--Alaska--Adak Island.
Alaska--Adak Island.
Physical Description:
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
Other Title:
Geology, paleoecology and archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska
Place of Publication:
Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2012.
Contents:
Preface. The people before : an introduction to Adak, Alaska / Dixie West
The central Aleutians Archaeological and Paleobiological Project / Dixie West ... [et al.]
One hundred forty years of archaeology in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Douglas W. Veltre
Did Holocene paleoenvironmental factors affect ancient Aleut occupation and settlement in the central Aleutian Islands? / Lyn Gualtieri ... [et al.]
Holocene tephra layers on the northern half of Adak Island in the west-central Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Mitsuru Okuno ... [et al.]
The reconstruction of ecosystems history of Adak Island (Aleutian Islands) during the Holocene / Arkady B. Savinetsky ... [et al.]
Archaeozoology of Adak Island : 6000 years of subsistence history in the central Aleutians / Susan J. Crockford
Ancient DNA analysis for the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) from archaeological sites on Adak, Aleutian Islands / Shin Nishida ... [et al.]
Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopic composition of bone collogen and tooth enamel carbonate of the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) from archaeological sites on Adak Island, Aleutian Archipelago / Ame Garong ... [et al.]
The Aleut cockle, Clinocardium nuttallii (Conrad, 1837) from ADK-011, Adak Island, Alaska / Hiroko Koike, Chizuru Takashima and Akihiro Kano
Invertebrate remains : a Pan Aleutian comparison / Dixie West ... [et al.]
Provenance of obsidian artifacts recovered from Adak Island, central Aleutian Islands : evidence for long-distance transport of lithic material / Kirsten Nicolaysen ... [et al.]
Six thousand years of lithic technology on Adak in a broader Aleutian context / Elizabeth G. Wilmerding and Virginia Hatfield
Clam Lagoon archaeology and technology / Marvin Kay
Griddlestones from Adak Island, Alaska : their provenance and the biological origins of organic residues from cooking / Richard Jeannotte ... [et al.]
Bone artifacts and debris from three archaeological sites on Adak Island, Alaska / Dixie West and Virginia Hatfield
A human burial from the Andreanof Islands, Alaska / Dixie West ... [et al.]
Conclusions / Dixie West and Susan Crockford.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781407309057
1407309056
OCLC:
780283330

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