Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula
Abstract A newly discovered late Neolithic culture of riverine hunters and fishermen becomes the third major culture known in the Chukchi-Koryak region of Northeast Asia. The arctic maritime hunters ancestral to the Eskimo have long been known, and recently evidence for an inland group of hunters in...
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crcambridgeupr:10.2307/277678 2023-05-15T13:24:38+02:00 Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula Okladnikov, A. P. Nekrasov, I. A. 1962 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277678 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000273160002401X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms American Antiquity volume 27, issue 4, page 546-556 ISSN 0002-7316 2325-5064 Museology Archeology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History journal-article 1962 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.2307/277678 2022-04-07T08:55:42Z Abstract A newly discovered late Neolithic culture of riverine hunters and fishermen becomes the third major culture known in the Chukchi-Koryak region of Northeast Asia. The arctic maritime hunters ancestral to the Eskimo have long been known, and recently evidence for an inland group of hunters in the northern reindeer and fish areas has been encountered. The Neolithic hunters and fishers lived in temporary, probably winter camps of semisubterranean houses near the game-rich mouths of tributaries on the well-drained gravel floodplains of the river valleys of the Anadyr-Penzhina lowlands. Collections from Vakernaia 1 and 2 in the Main River valley are described. Chipped stone artifacts with pressure retouch include some obsidian knives, and trapezoidal and semilunar knives made on pebble flakes. There are grinder picks, polished slate knives of ulo type, and adzes including a form comparable to the splitting adz of the Chugach sequence in southern Alaska. Picks or mattocks were made of walrus tusk and antler. The bulk of the collection consists of pottery. Hemispherical vessels of great size variation are plain, textile-impressed, and stamped. Although house type, the walrus tusk, and the ulo knives suggest some connection with the Bering Sea hunting cultures, the basic traits appear to be of more local origin. Article in Journal/Newspaper Anadyr Anadyr' Arctic Bering Sea Chukchi Chukchi Peninsula eskimo* Koryak Alaska walrus* Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Arctic Bering Sea Anadyr ENVELOPE(177.510,177.510,64.734,64.734) Anadyr’ ENVELOPE(176.233,176.233,64.882,64.882) Grinder ENVELOPE(-61.426,-61.426,-63.966,-63.966) Penzhina ENVELOPE(165.112,165.112,62.468,62.468) American Antiquity 27 4 546 556 |
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Abstract A newly discovered late Neolithic culture of riverine hunters and fishermen becomes the third major culture known in the Chukchi-Koryak region of Northeast Asia. The arctic maritime hunters ancestral to the Eskimo have long been known, and recently evidence for an inland group of hunters in the northern reindeer and fish areas has been encountered. The Neolithic hunters and fishers lived in temporary, probably winter camps of semisubterranean houses near the game-rich mouths of tributaries on the well-drained gravel floodplains of the river valleys of the Anadyr-Penzhina lowlands. Collections from Vakernaia 1 and 2 in the Main River valley are described. Chipped stone artifacts with pressure retouch include some obsidian knives, and trapezoidal and semilunar knives made on pebble flakes. There are grinder picks, polished slate knives of ulo type, and adzes including a form comparable to the splitting adz of the Chugach sequence in southern Alaska. Picks or mattocks were made of walrus tusk and antler. The bulk of the collection consists of pottery. Hemispherical vessels of great size variation are plain, textile-impressed, and stamped. Although house type, the walrus tusk, and the ulo knives suggest some connection with the Bering Sea hunting cultures, the basic traits appear to be of more local origin. |
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Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula |
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Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula |
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Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula |
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Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula |
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Ancient Settlements in the Main River Valley, Chukchi Peninsula |
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ancient settlements in the main river valley, chukchi peninsula |
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