Ancient Eskimo Cultures of Chukotka

• Main Authors: Bronshtein, Mikhail M., Dneprovsky, Kirill A., Savinetsky, Arkady B.
• Other Authors: Friesen, Max, Mason, Owen
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2016
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Greenland; Kolyma; Wrangel Island; Chukotka; eskimo*; kolyma river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.53

Remnants of one Paleoeskimo and several Neoeskimo cultural traditions have been revealed in the coastal regions of Chukotka since the mid-1940s. The Chukotka Paleoeskimo cultural tradition, discovered on Wrangel Island, is comparable with the Paleoeskimo cultures of North America—Old Whaling (Alaska...