Northern Archaic

North Americahunter-gatherers
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The Northern Archaic tradition of Alaska and western Yukon dates between 6000-3000 BP, during its later half overlapping with the Western Arctic Small Tool tradition. The people were mobile hunter-gatherers subsisting mainly on caribou. Side-notched projectile points and endscrapers are diagnostic artifacts; at about half of sites microblade technology continues from the preceding Paleo-Arctic tradition.

Identifier
Region
  • North America
Subregion
  • Arctic and Subarctic
Subsistence Type
  • hunter-gatherers
Countries
  • Canada
  • United States