Book
The lithic remains from Anangula, an 8,500 year old Aleut coastal village
Archaeologica Venatoria : Institut für Urgeschichte der Universität Tübingen • Tübingen • Published In 1978 • Pages: ix, 223
By: Aigner, Jean S..
Abstract
Aigner analyzed the Anangula lithic material excavated in 1963 by the University of Wisconsin, Department of Anthropology. Anangula was a year-round base village of sea mammal hunters and fishers. This study is an in-depth, etiological analysis of the lithic remains. Most of the lithic remains were cores and blades. One surprising finding concerns left-handedness. 'There is ethnographic information that Aleuts accommodated left-handed individuals by producing tools … specificially for the left-handed. They … did not make an effort to change people over to right-handedness … The high proportion of apparent left-handedness reflected in the spalls and blanks at Anangula is of considerable interest in this respect.' (page 123).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 8750 BP - 8250 BP
- Coverage Place
- Anangula; Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- Notes
- Jean S. Aigner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-223)
- LCCN
- 88100202
- LCSH
- Paleo-Indian--Alaska