Resurrecting beach ridge archaeology: Parallel depositional records from St. Lawrence Island and Cape Krusenstern, Western Alaska

• Published in: Geoarchaeology
• Main Authors: Mason, Owen K., Ludwig, Stefanie L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1990
• Subjects: Cape Krusenstern; Giddings; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Punuk culture; St Lawrence Island; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.3340050404; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgea.3340050404; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gea.3340050404

Abstract Archaeological sites on gravel beach ridge plains offer a treacherously facile method of reconstructing cultural chronology based on the assumption that settlements were preferentially situated nearest the sea. the initial phase of beach ridge methodology in Alaska dates from its 1930s use...