book chapter
Sites of the Norton culture
archaeology of Cape Denbigh • Providence, Rhode Island • Published In 1964 • Pages: xv, 331 , 73 plates
By: Giddings, J. Louis (James Louis).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author describes his excavations at Iyatayet, Madjujuinuk, Gungnuk, and Difchahak, all on or near Cape Denbigh, Alaska. All four sites contain artifacts of the Norton culture. Iyatayet is the site type where Norton culture was first recognized. Giddings describes the excavations, house floors, and artifacts found at each site. Good photographs of the artifacts, mainly from Iyatayet, are included as plates in the back of the article. Many of the artifacts from the Norton culture are very similar to more recent Eskimos. Some of the distinguishing characteristics of the Norton culture are check-stamped and linear-stamped pottery, stone lamps, and ground slate tools.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Weapons
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Norton
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- J. L. Giddings
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318) and index
- only pp. 119-190, 311-318 are included
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63010231
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eskimos--Antiquities