A Preliminary Statement on the Pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska
This Brief Paper will serve as an introduction to an examination of the ceramic material excavated by Giddings at the site of Iyatayet on Cape Denbigh in Norton Sound in northwestern Alaska. Norton Sound is located in the northeastern Bering Sea. The site has become well known because of the Cape De...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0081130000001143 2024-03-03T08:43:15+00:00 A Preliminary Statement on the Pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska Griffin, James B. 1953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000001143 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0081130000001143 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology volume 9, page 40-42 ISSN 0081-1300 2330-2275 General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science journal-article 1953 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000001143 2024-02-08T08:28:48Z This Brief Paper will serve as an introduction to an examination of the ceramic material excavated by Giddings at the site of Iyatayet on Cape Denbigh in Norton Sound in northwestern Alaska. Norton Sound is located in the northeastern Bering Sea. The site has become well known because of the Cape Denbigh flint complex which occurred in the lowest level of the site and which was separated from the pottery levels above by a sterile zone of varying thickness, from 2 to 18 inches, made up of laminated, sandy clay (Giddings, 1949, 1951). This sterile zone was contorted and has been tentatively interpreted as indicating a colder climate than the present. The upper sections of the excavated area at Iyatayet give every indication of having been intermittently occupied from relatively recent times back through Eskimo history to approximately 2000 years ago. The top layers of the site contain the same artifacts and ceramic materials as those found on the neighboring Nukleet site which is thought to date roughly around 1500 to 1600 A.D. Other materials from the upper zone are suggestive of Early Punuk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Sea eskimo* Iyatayet Alaska Cambridge University Press Bering Sea Flint ENVELOPE(-65.417,-65.417,-67.333,-67.333) Norton Sound ENVELOPE(69.507,69.507,-49.202,-49.202) Giddings ENVELOPE(50.733,50.733,-67.400,-67.400) Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology 9 40 42 |
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This Brief Paper will serve as an introduction to an examination of the ceramic material excavated by Giddings at the site of Iyatayet on Cape Denbigh in Norton Sound in northwestern Alaska. Norton Sound is located in the northeastern Bering Sea. The site has become well known because of the Cape Denbigh flint complex which occurred in the lowest level of the site and which was separated from the pottery levels above by a sterile zone of varying thickness, from 2 to 18 inches, made up of laminated, sandy clay (Giddings, 1949, 1951). This sterile zone was contorted and has been tentatively interpreted as indicating a colder climate than the present. The upper sections of the excavated area at Iyatayet give every indication of having been intermittently occupied from relatively recent times back through Eskimo history to approximately 2000 years ago. The top layers of the site contain the same artifacts and ceramic materials as those found on the neighboring Nukleet site which is thought to date roughly around 1500 to 1600 A.D. Other materials from the upper zone are suggestive of Early Punuk. |
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A Preliminary Statement on the Pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska |
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A Preliminary Statement on the Pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska |
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A Preliminary Statement on the Pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska |
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