Notes on an Aleutian Core and Blade Industry

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Laughlin, W. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1951
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Arctic; Arctic Institute of North America; The Arctic Institute; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277359; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000273160000888X

The possibility of a culture preceding that of the earliest paleo-Aleuts in the Aleutian Islands has been recognized for a long time. However, the researches of Jochelson and Hrdlicka provided no substantiation for such a possibility. Subsequent excavations carried out by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University in 1948, a party sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America in 1949, and a party from the University of Oregon in 1950 have similarly failed to reveal any culture earlier than that of the paleo-Aleuts. Re-examination of an existing collection suggests the presence of such a culture in the Aleutian Islands