book chapter
People of the spreading forest
Eskimos and Aleuts • London • Published In 1987 • Pages: 47-54
By: Dumond, Don E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author compares assemblages of Northern Archaic sites to others with side-notched points with the aim of understanding where they appeared first. Although the sites highlighted are in Alaska eastward nearly to Hudson Bay, the discussion ranges south to Idaho and Oregon.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Comparative evidence
- Historical reconstruction
- Cultural participation
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Northern Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2024
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 7000-3500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alaska, United States; Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Don E. Dumond
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 54a)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87050399
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eskimos--Antiquities
- Aleuts--Antiquities
- North America--Antiquities
- Arctic regions--Antiquities