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The Dixthada site: results of 1971 excavations
western Canadian journal of anthropology • 5 (3-4) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 148-158
By: Shinkwin, Anne D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Shinkwin briefly describes the findings of the 1971 excavations at Dixthada, a site on Fish Creek near Mansfield Village in the Tanana River Valley in Alaska. Rainey, who excavated mostly in the middens, first excavated the site in 1936 and 1937. Cook and McKennan revisited the site in 1971 to determine if an earlier microblade component could be isolated from the later Athapaskan material. The microblades were mostly found in a strata of yellow silt which contained mostly lithics and no copper. Shinkwin analyzed the 1971 assemblage with Rainey's and divided the artifacts into two levels, the Upper, with a date of 470 ± 60 B.C., and the Lower, with dates of A.D. 1560 ± 50 and A.D. 1180 ± 40. Their collections are described. Dixthada is compared to a few other sites. Shinkwin concludes the Upper Level (A.D. 1000 - 1800) is Northern Athapaskan.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Prehistory
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Metallurgy
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Anne D. Shinkwin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81039011
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities