Problems of ethnic history in the Bering Sea : the Ekven Cemetery / by Sergei A. Arutiunov and Dorian A. Sergeev ; newly edited by Sergei A. Arutiunov ; translated and edited by Richard L. Bland.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Aruti︠u︡nov, S. A. (Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich), 1932- author.

Sergeev, D. A. (Dorian Andreevich), author.

Contributor:

Bland, Richard L., translator.

Shared Beringian Heritage Program (U.S.), issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Problemy ėtnicheskoĭ istorii Beringomorʹi︠a︡. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Ekven Cemetery Site (Russia).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Russia (Federation)--Chukchi Peninsula.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Russia (Federation)--Chukchi Peninsula.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Grave goods--Russia (Federation)--Ekven Cemetery Site.

Grave goods.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Russia (Federation)--Ekven Cemetery Site.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Eskimos--Antiquities.

Eskimos.

Chukchi Peninsula (Russia)--Antiquities.

Chukchi Peninsula (Russia).

Antiquities.

Russia (Federation)--Chukchi Peninsula.

Russia (Federation)--Ekven Cemetery Site.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations, map

Other Title:

Ekven Cemetery

Place of Publication:

[Anchorage, Alaska] : Shared Beringian Heritage Program, 2006.

Language Note:

Translated from Russian; text in English with some front matter in Russian.

Contents:

Problems of the study of ethnic history of the northwest coast of the Pacific Ocean

Ekven Cemetery (site description)

Analysis of the correlation of the formalized series of toggling harpoon heads from early Eskimo cemeteries in Chukotka

The specifics of the inventories found in the Ekven Cemetery

Aesthetics and purposes of early Eskimo art

Eskimo folklore motifs in the sculpture of the Old Bering Sea period

The role of early Eskimo cultures in the ethnic history of the North Pacific Basin

The results of paleo-ethnographic research in the west Bering Sea region

Paleoanthropological materials from the Old Bering Sea cemeteries of Uelen and Ekven / by D.F. Debets.

Notes:

"August 2006"--Page ii.

"The text published here is an abridged translation of the monograph by S. Arutiunov and D. Sergeev that can be regarded as a continuation of the earlier book Ancient Cultures of Asiatic Eskimos. The current volume bears the title Problems of Ethnic History of the Bering Sea Area. The former book was published in its original language in 1969 and the latter in 1975"--Page viii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261).

Online resource; title from PDF title page (NPS, viewed Nov. 22, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version: Aruti︠u︡nov, S.A. (Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich), 1932- Problemy ėtnicheskoĭ istorii Beringomorʹi︠a︡. English. Problems of ethnic history in the Bering Sea

OCLC:

964091208