Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there

Frequently, surface depressions at Dena'ina ancestral sites are interpreted as houses or cache pits. A review of ethnographic and historical literature suggests that surface depressions at Dena'ina ancestral sites are a result of several activities beyond habitation and caching. Pitfall tr...

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Main Authors: Rogers, Monty (Cultural Alaska), Stone, Daniel
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: the Digital Archaeological Record
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8Z320GV_meta$v=1363577366637
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spelling dataone:doi:10.6067:XCV8Z320GV_meta$v-1363577366637 2024-06-03T18:46:45+00:00 Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there Rogers, Monty (Cultural Alaska) Stone, Daniel Cook Inlet ENVELOPE(-156.26953,-147.63428,62.603455,59.232178) 2013-03-18T03:29:26.637Z https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8Z320GV_meta$v=1363577366637 unknown the Digital Archaeological Record Dena'ina Archaeological Overview Ethnohistoric Research Archaeological Feature House Pit Cache Pit Water Well Cooking Pit Sweat Bath Smoke House Menstrual Hut Cremation Pit Grave Pitfall Temporary Shelter Steam Bath Dataset dataone:urn:node:TDAR https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8Z320GV_meta$v=1363577366637 2024-06-03T18:05:59Z Frequently, surface depressions at Dena'ina ancestral sites are interpreted as houses or cache pits. A review of ethnographic and historical literature suggests that surface depressions at Dena'ina ancestral sites are a result of several activities beyond habitation and caching. Pitfall traps, temporary shelters, cooking pits, menstrual huts, water wells, graves, and trees uprooted for beluga hunting are some features that can result in surface depressions. Possible feature locations, attributes, and identification methods are addressed in the presentation. Dataset Beluga Beluga* Dena'ina the Digital Archaeological Record (via DataONE) ENVELOPE(-156.26953,-147.63428,62.603455,59.232178)
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language unknown
topic Dena'ina
Archaeological Overview
Ethnohistoric Research
Archaeological Feature
House Pit
Cache Pit
Water Well
Cooking Pit
Sweat Bath
Smoke House
Menstrual Hut
Cremation Pit
Grave
Pitfall
Temporary Shelter
Steam Bath
spellingShingle Dena'ina
Archaeological Overview
Ethnohistoric Research
Archaeological Feature
House Pit
Cache Pit
Water Well
Cooking Pit
Sweat Bath
Smoke House
Menstrual Hut
Cremation Pit
Grave
Pitfall
Temporary Shelter
Steam Bath
Rogers, Monty (Cultural Alaska)
Stone, Daniel
Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there
topic_facet Dena'ina
Archaeological Overview
Ethnohistoric Research
Archaeological Feature
House Pit
Cache Pit
Water Well
Cooking Pit
Sweat Bath
Smoke House
Menstrual Hut
Cremation Pit
Grave
Pitfall
Temporary Shelter
Steam Bath
description Frequently, surface depressions at Dena'ina ancestral sites are interpreted as houses or cache pits. A review of ethnographic and historical literature suggests that surface depressions at Dena'ina ancestral sites are a result of several activities beyond habitation and caching. Pitfall traps, temporary shelters, cooking pits, menstrual huts, water wells, graves, and trees uprooted for beluga hunting are some features that can result in surface depressions. Possible feature locations, attributes, and identification methods are addressed in the presentation.
format Dataset
author Rogers, Monty (Cultural Alaska)
Stone, Daniel
author_facet Rogers, Monty (Cultural Alaska)
Stone, Daniel
author_sort Rogers, Monty (Cultural Alaska)
title Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there
title_short Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there
title_full Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there
title_fullStr Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there
title_full_unstemmed Looking Beyond Dena’ina House Pits and Cache Pits: There is something else out there
title_sort looking beyond dena’ina house pits and cache pits: there is something else out there
publisher the Digital Archaeological Record
publishDate
url https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8Z320GV_meta$v=1363577366637
op_coverage Cook Inlet
ENVELOPE(-156.26953,-147.63428,62.603455,59.232178)
long_lat ENVELOPE(-156.26953,-147.63428,62.603455,59.232178)
genre Beluga
Beluga*
Dena'ina
genre_facet Beluga
Beluga*
Dena'ina
op_doi https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8Z320GV_meta$v=1363577366637
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