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The Kuparuk Pingo site: a Northern Archaic hunting camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, north Alaska
Arctic • 39 (1) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 47-51
By: Lobdell, John E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report on the discovery and excavation of, and analysis of the findings from Kaparuk Pingo, the first Northern Archaic hunting camp found on the wet tundra of the Arctic Coastal Plain.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- 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
- article
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- Field: 1982, 1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6210-5620 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kuparuk Pingo (49-XPB-033), North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John E. Lobdell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-51)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- gs 50000281
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities