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Old Whalers

Beach ridge archaeology of Cape Krusenstern : Eskimo and pre-Eskimo settlements around Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by J.L. Giddings and Douglas D. Anderson • (20) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 231-267, 363-368 , plates

By: Giddings, J. Louis (James Louis), Anderson, Douglas D..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

The authors had originally expected to find oval houses of Choris culture on Beach 53. Instead, the artifacts and the shape of the houses quickly led them to realize they were dealing with a new culture. The whaling implements and the whale bones found at the site led the authors to designate the new culture 'Old Whaling'. As of the publication date (1986), no other Old Whaling sites have been found. To the authors the Old Whaling culture also seems to have no immediate predecessors and to have disappeared, leaving no antecedants. Five winter houses and five summer houses were excavated. Detailed descriptions of the houses and their artifacts are given.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Bone, horn, and shell technology

Lithic industries

Dwellings

Heating and lighting equipment

Weapons

General tools

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

essay

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 and D. D. Anderson

Govt. Doc. No. I 29.59:20

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-368)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

84600324

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Eskimos--Antiquities