GEOLOGY OF THE ENGIGSTCIAK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, YUKON TERRITORY
F OR some years students of human history have hoped and expected to find a record of human occupation in the Arctic of western Canada and Alaska comparable in antiquity to the now rather numerous “Early Man ” sites of the central and southwestern United States. The Engigstciak site (discovered by M...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.497.4866 2023-05-15T14:19:51+02:00 GEOLOGY OF THE ENGIGSTCIAK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, YUKON TERRITORY The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.4866 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic14-1-25.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.4866 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic14-1-25.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic14-1-25.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T08:51:27Z F OR some years students of human history have hoped and expected to find a record of human occupation in the Arctic of western Canada and Alaska comparable in antiquity to the now rather numerous “Early Man ” sites of the central and southwestern United States. The Engigstciak site (discovered by MacNeish in 1954) near the mouth of the Firth River, Yukon Territory, Canada (Fig. l), appears to contain such a record in the form of typologically old-looking flint artifacts intimately associated with the bones of extinct animals. The rich artifact assemblage also includes objects assignable on typological grounds to much later cultures, some of which are already well known in other parts of the Arctic. It is clear that the site has been occupied repeatedly throughout much of post-glacial time. Unfortunately, the natural processes of soil movements of an arctic climate, acting upon especially frost-susceptible sediments, has almost completely destroyed the original stratigraphic relationships in some parts of the archaeological site. In a few places there has been an intimate mixing Text Arctic Arctic Alaska Yukon Unknown Arctic Yukon Canada Flint ENVELOPE(-65.417,-65.417,-67.333,-67.333) Firth River ENVELOPE(-139.508,-139.508,69.542,69.542) |
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F OR some years students of human history have hoped and expected to find a record of human occupation in the Arctic of western Canada and Alaska comparable in antiquity to the now rather numerous “Early Man ” sites of the central and southwestern United States. The Engigstciak site (discovered by MacNeish in 1954) near the mouth of the Firth River, Yukon Territory, Canada (Fig. l), appears to contain such a record in the form of typologically old-looking flint artifacts intimately associated with the bones of extinct animals. The rich artifact assemblage also includes objects assignable on typological grounds to much later cultures, some of which are already well known in other parts of the Arctic. It is clear that the site has been occupied repeatedly throughout much of post-glacial time. Unfortunately, the natural processes of soil movements of an arctic climate, acting upon especially frost-susceptible sediments, has almost completely destroyed the original stratigraphic relationships in some parts of the archaeological site. In a few places there has been an intimate mixing |
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GEOLOGY OF THE ENGIGSTCIAK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, YUKON TERRITORY |
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