article
An artifactual comparison of finds of Norton and related cultures
Arctic anthropology • 19 (2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 53-58
By: Larsen, Helge Eyvin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Larsen compares nine artifact assemblages from sites located along the Bering Sea to the Alaskan Penninsula (Point Hope, Cape Krusenstern, Kugzruk Island, Cape Nome, Nunivak Island, Platinum, Chagvan Bay, Nanvak Bay, and Naknek Drainage). The author considers these assemblages to belong to the Norton culture based on the presence of nine cultural elements which do not occur in Ipiutak cultural assemblages. Not all the sites compared contain all nine elements. The author attributes this partly to the site's location along the Alaskan coast. The culture elements that occur at each site are briefly discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Comparative evidence
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- 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
- 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
- Helge Larsen
- Includes bibliographical references (p.58)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eskimos--Antiquities