The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska

A series of 29 radiocarbon dates from 11 sites on Admiralty Island span the last 3,200 calendar years. Although our research corroborates many of the results of de Laguna's (1960) earlier work in the area, we find the Tlingit settlement pattern to be at least 1,600 years old, significantly olde...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:American Antiquity
Main Authors: Moss, Madonna L., Erlandson, Jon M., Stuckenrath, Robert
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1989
Subjects:
Museology
Archeology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
History
Weir
Admiralty Island
tlingit
Alaska
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/280781
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600060273
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Summary:A series of 29 radiocarbon dates from 11 sites on Admiralty Island span the last 3,200 calendar years. Although our research corroborates many of the results of de Laguna's (1960) earlier work in the area, we find the Tlingit settlement pattern to be at least 1,600 years old, significantly older than previously believed. Dating of a wooden fish weir demonstrates that mass harvesting of salmon has an antiquity of at least 3,000 years.

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