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Archaeology of interior Alaska
western Canadian journal of anthropology • 5 (3-4) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 125-133
By: Cook, John P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Cook presents a brief overview of pre-contact period archaeolgical sites in Alaska that may relate to ethnographic Athapaskans and Proto-Athapaskans. He discusses some of the diagnostic traits which come from Proto-Athapaskan sites dating to the Christian Era such as small stemmed projectile points, TCHI-THOS, a lack of finely worked stone tools, and semi-subterranean houses. Cook speculates that Athapaskan culture originated in the Tanana Valley in Alaska. He also gives a brief overview of the Denali and Tuktu/Palisades complexes and a review of sites dating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Comparative evidence
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Proto-Athapaskans
- 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
- NotesAdditional notes
- John P. Cook
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81039011
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities