essay
Smelt Creek phase
Archaeology on the Alaska Peninsula : the Naknek Region, 1960-1975 • (21) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 132-138, 235-243 , plates
By: Dumond, Don E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author describes the artifacts and some of their manufacturing techniques that distinguish the Smelt Creek phase from other phases in the Norton tradition. The archaeology, features, and stratigraphy of the Smelt Creek phase at the Smelt Creek site and the Brooks River site are also discussed. Both appear to be temporary fishing camps.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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