New Traces of an Inland Neolithic Culture in the Chukotsk (Chukchi) Peninsula

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Authors: Okladnikov, A. P., Nekrasov, I. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1959
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Arctic; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Amguema; Anadyr'; Caribou Eskimo; Chukchi; Chukchi Peninsula; eskimo*; Paleo-Eskimo; Yukaghir
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277444; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000273160002713X

Abstract The El'gytkhyn site consists of a cache of stone artifacts and a nearby campsite on the shores of Lake El'gytkhyn on the central Anadyr plateau. The cache contained some 50 artifacts, both knives and points made on large flake-blades and carefully retouched by pressure flaking, an...