essay
3000 years of prehistory at Minchumina: the question of cultural boundaries
problems in the prehistory of the north american subarctic : the athapaskan question • Calgary • Published In 1977 • Pages: 11-15
By: Holmes, Charles E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Holmes compares the archaeological collection from Lake Minchumina with other site collections throughout Alaska. Holmes believes Athapaskan prehistory may go back 2500 years although there is not enough data to provide a reason for the change in material culture seen around A.D. 1000.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Cultural participation
- Lithic industries
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles E. Holmes
- For bibliographical references see 39: References cited
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80494866
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities