Idaliuk Bay Camp, Umnak Island, Alaska Circa 4200 B.P.

• Published in: North American Archaeologist
• Main Author: Aigner, Jean S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1983
• Subjects: Archeology; Bering Sea; Sandy Beach; aleut; Chaluka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/3buk-qvm2-c1qj-mhwr; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2190/3BUK-QVM2-C1QJ-MHWR

Idaliuk Bay is a small Aleut satellite or “spike” camp on the Bering Sea side of Umnak Island dating to 4,200 B.P. Approximately contemporary with lowest levels at the well-known Aleut village site of Chaluka, and with the upper levels at the mid-Holocene Aleut site of Sandy Beach Bay, use of lithic...