Book
Dakah de'nin's village and the Dixthada site: a contribution to northern Athapaskan prehistory
National Museums of Canada • Ottawa • Published In 1979 • Pages: xi, 197
By: Shinkwin, Anne D..
Abstract
Shinkwin excavated two houses and partially excavated a third at Dakah de'nin's village in 1973 and analyzed the site's archaeological collection. She also analyzed the archaeological collections from Rainey's 1936 and 1937 excavations and Cook and McKennan's 1971 excavation from the Dixthada site. Cook and McKennan excavated at Dixthada to determine if the site were a two component site. (It is.) Both sites are in the Alaskan interior and were ethnographically associated with Northern Athapaskan groups. Artifacts from the two sites include glass trade beads, native copper, awls, bone points, copper points, Kavik points, boulder spall scrapers (TCHI THOS), whetstones, hammerstones, bone drinking tubes, and birch bark baskets. The range of acivities for the sites as indicated by the artifacts include hunting of large and small mammals, fishing , preparing hides, and sewing. Shinkwin reviews the history of contact and the ethnographic data for each site. Data from the two sites, along with Klo-kut in northern Yukon Territory, are examined to determine whether or not one can conclude from the archaeological data that there were three different Athapaskan groups at the three sites. Shinkwin concludes that the archaeological data are too generalized and can only support the fact that the sites are related; that they are Northern Athapaskan.
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Notes
- Anne D. Shinkwin
- Summary in French
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180)
- LCCN
- 80486960
- LCSH
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities