Time, Oral Tradition, and Archaeology at Xakwnoowú, A Little Ice Age Fort in Southeastern Alaska

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Authors: Crowell, Aron L., Howell, Wayne K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Glacier Bay; Fuller; glacier; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.78.1.3; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000273160000069X

Abstract As a linguistic medium, oral tradition conveys rich and specific detail about past events but is also subject to alteration in the course of transmission between generations. As a source for indigenous history, spoken heritage is characteristically specific in geographic attribution and thu...