essay
Prehistoric relationships between the Plains, Boreal Forest and Cordillian regions
problems in the prehistory of the north american subarctic : the athapaskan question • Calgary • Published In 1977 • Pages: 83-89
By: Donahue, Paul F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Donahue presents the argument that artifacts that are commonly refered to as 'ethnoliguistic markers' (i.e. archaeological assemblages or diagnostic artifacts that are thought of as Athapaskan, Salishan, or Algonkian) can better be assigned to different physiographic or environmental zones. To support this argument, Donahue discusses characteristic artifacts of the northern Plains, the Boreal forest, and the Cordilleran. He points out some fallicies of lexicostatistics and some assumptions that archaeologists commonly make in assigning archaeological assemblages to the ancestors of a modern group, and other simplistic assumptions. He stresses more stringent criteria be used which will support arguments proposing cultural continuity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Location
- External migration
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- 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
- 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
- Paul F. Donahue
- For bibliographical references see 39: References cited
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80494866
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities