Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska
Abstract Combined archaeological, ecological, and geologic research on Chuginadak and Carlisle Islands in the Islands of Four Mountains (IFM) probed questions about the sustainability of human settlements over the past 4000 years in the face of geologic, ecological, and social hazards. We use a huma...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/qua.2018.149 2024-09-15T18:41:28+00:00 Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska Hatfield, Virginia L. Nicolaysen, Kirsten West, Dixie L. Krylovich, Olga A. Bruner, Kale M. Savinetsky, Arkady B. Vasyukov, Dmitry D. MacInnes, Breanyn T. Khasanov, Bulat F. Persico, Lyman Okuno, Mitsuru 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.149 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589418001497 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Quaternary Research volume 91, issue 03, page 917-933 ISSN 0033-5894 1096-0287 journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.149 2024-07-24T04:02:38Z Abstract Combined archaeological, ecological, and geologic research on Chuginadak and Carlisle Islands in the Islands of Four Mountains (IFM) probed questions about the sustainability of human settlements over the past 4000 years in the face of geologic, ecological, and social hazards. We use a human ecodynamics approach to frame the investigation and present original archaeological evidence from this poorly known region of the remote Aleutian Islands. Several village sites occupied during the last four millennia are clustered in locations that were not damaged by earthquake-induced tsunamis; however, new geologic evidence indicates that at least one volcanic eruption forced humans to abandon one or more prehistoric village sites. Combined archaeological, ecological, and geologic analyses demonstrate resilient Unangax̂ occupations of the IFM through long-term climate change as well as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions with occasional community vulnerability to volcanic eruptions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alaska Aleutian Islands Cambridge University Press Quaternary Research 91 03 917 933 |
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Abstract Combined archaeological, ecological, and geologic research on Chuginadak and Carlisle Islands in the Islands of Four Mountains (IFM) probed questions about the sustainability of human settlements over the past 4000 years in the face of geologic, ecological, and social hazards. We use a human ecodynamics approach to frame the investigation and present original archaeological evidence from this poorly known region of the remote Aleutian Islands. Several village sites occupied during the last four millennia are clustered in locations that were not damaged by earthquake-induced tsunamis; however, new geologic evidence indicates that at least one volcanic eruption forced humans to abandon one or more prehistoric village sites. Combined archaeological, ecological, and geologic analyses demonstrate resilient Unangax̂ occupations of the IFM through long-term climate change as well as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions with occasional community vulnerability to volcanic eruptions. |
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Hatfield, Virginia L. Nicolaysen, Kirsten West, Dixie L. Krylovich, Olga A. Bruner, Kale M. Savinetsky, Arkady B. Vasyukov, Dmitry D. MacInnes, Breanyn T. Khasanov, Bulat F. Persico, Lyman Okuno, Mitsuru |
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Hatfield, Virginia L. Nicolaysen, Kirsten West, Dixie L. Krylovich, Olga A. Bruner, Kale M. Savinetsky, Arkady B. Vasyukov, Dmitry D. MacInnes, Breanyn T. Khasanov, Bulat F. Persico, Lyman Okuno, Mitsuru Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska |
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Hatfield, Virginia L. Nicolaysen, Kirsten West, Dixie L. Krylovich, Olga A. Bruner, Kale M. Savinetsky, Arkady B. Vasyukov, Dmitry D. MacInnes, Breanyn T. Khasanov, Bulat F. Persico, Lyman Okuno, Mitsuru |
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Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska |
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Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska |
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Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska |
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