Publication Information The main body of the Publication Information page contains all the metadata that HRAF holds for that document.
Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Ackerman, Robert E.
Title:
Mid-holocene occupation of interior southwest Alaska
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Man and the mid-holocene climatic optimum, edited by Neil A. McKinnon and Glenn S. L. Stuart
Published By: Original publisher
Man and the mid-holocene climatic optimum, edited by Neil A. McKinnon and Glenn S. L. Stuart
Calgary, Alberta, Canada: The University of Calgary Archaeological Association. 1987. 181-192 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Robert E. Ackerman
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2002. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Late Tundra (NA45)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification (101);
Climate (132);
Historical reconstruction (174);
Lithic industries (324);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Ackerman discusses the climatic and vegetational changes in southwest Alaska just before and after the start of the Holocene period. He also describes the material culture (lithic tools) of the mid-Holocene in southwest Alaska, with an emphasis on the Kagati Lake site and the Kagati Lake culture, and the possible origins of this culture.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
1
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
na45-001
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1978, 1979, 1981, 1982
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Archaeologist-4, 5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Sarah Berry ; 2000
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
8000 BP - 6500 BP
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
southwest Alaska, United States
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Paleo-Indian--Alaska
