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Beyond the southern frontier: the Norton culture and the western Kenai Peninsula
Arctic anthropology • 19 (2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 101-121
By: Workman, William B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is a survey of the Norton literature to determine the orgin and extent of the Norton tradition. Workman comments on the relationship of Norton to other traditions, including the Arctic Small Tool, Northern Maritime, North Alaska, Choris, Thule, Ipiulak, and North Pacific. He focusses on the culture of Kachemak Bay in the North Pacific, which includes most of the primary and secondary defining traits of the Norton culture, except for ceramics. However, he concludes that the two cultures are only indirectly related and share similar characteristics based on their similar adaptations. The appendix includes a list of the three basic defining characteristics, and the primary and secondary defining traits of the Norton culture by archaeological site.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Diagnostic material attributes
- Comparative evidence
- Lithic industries
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- William B. Workman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-121)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eskimos--Antiquities