essay
Trade at the cross roads
problems in the prehistory of the north american subarctic : the athapaskan question • Calgary • Published In 1977 • Pages: 130-134
By: Clark, Annette McFadyen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Clark discusses known and possible trade relations between the Koyukuk Indians and the Eskimos. Most of the evidence for prehistoric trade in Alaska is obsidian of Koyukuk origin. Details about how the trade was conducted and what else was traded is unknown until contact times. Clark discusses some of what is known about trade relationships and what was traded during contact times. She speculates that intertribal trading partnerships which existed in the past may account for some of the inland phases of cultures such as Choris, Norton, and Ipiutak.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Prehistory
- Exchange and transfers
- Exchange transactions
- External trade
- 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
- A. McFadyen Clark
- For bibliographical references see 39: References cited
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80494866
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities