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Northern Archaic settlement and subsistence patterns at Agiak Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska
Arctic anthropology • 45 (2) • Published In 2008 • Pages: 128-145
By: Wilson, Aaron K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors examine two tent ring sites at Agiak Lake to determine whether they contain evidence of dispersed small groups assembling periodically for such activities as communal hunting, or whether the large number of tent rings near the lake represent repeated occupation by an extended family. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive models, but demonstrating which prevailed would require more dates from more tent rings, and a better understanding of what archaeological patterns are diagnostic of which model, so the authors examine the ethnographic literature for data on hunter-gatherer settlement size and population among high-latitude North Americans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Experimental data
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Community structure
- 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
- 2001 and 2005
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 5600 BP-4900BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Agiak Lake, North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Aaron K. Wilson and Jeffrey T. Rasic
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-145)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities