essay
Brooks River Weir phase
Archaeology on the Alaska Peninsula : the Naknek Region, 1960-1975 • (21) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 139-146, 235-243 , plates
By: Dumond, Don E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dumond describes the Brooks River Weir phase artifacts and some of their manufacturing techniques that distinguish them from the Smelt Creek phase and the Brooks River Falls phase of the Norton tradition. The archaeology, features and stratifgraphy of the Brooks River, Naknek Weir, and Airport sites are discussed. This phase has both constructed houses and temporary camps. This evidence, with the artifactual evidence, seem to indicate seasonal occupation shifts, but as there is no faunal data what kind of seasonal shifts occurred can't be confirmed. Dumond also speculates that further excavations and data may prove that the Brooks River Weir phase should be 900 years long and that both the previous Smelt Creek and subsequent Brooks River Falls phases should be shortened to 200 years.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- by Don E. Dumond
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81621829
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eskimos--Antiquities