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A Prehistoric Athapaskan campsite in northwestern Alberta
western Canadian journal of anthropology • 5 (3-4) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 64-91 , plates
By: Bryan, Alan Lyle, Conaty, Gerald T., Steele, D. Gentry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Karpinsky site is a single component site accidentially discovered by Mr. Karpinsky when he was using a deep tiller to break ground. The site was then salvage excavated by the authors. Bryan describes the site's stratigraphy and artifacts (projectile points, bifaces, scrapers, other lithic material, and bone fragments, one of which is either a musical rasp or a gaming piece). Part of an infant's tooth was also found and is described in an appendix. Bryan speculates the temporary family camp site was abandoned when a flood inundated the camp and he believes the assemblage typifies the archaeology of the last 2,000 years in the Peace River country.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Location
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Proto-Athapaskans
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alan L. Bryan ; Gerald Conaty ; With appendix 'Analysis of a human tooth' [by] D. Gentry Steele
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-87)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81039011
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities