ARCTIC The Late Prehistoric Period in the Mackenzie Valley

ABSTRACT. Artifacts from more than 20 late prehistoric components in the Mackenzie valley are described and compared with those from contem-poraneous assemblages from neighbouring areas. MacNeish’s Spence River phase is expanded to cover this material, which seems to exhibit at least some integrity...

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Main Author: David A. Morrison
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Key words
archaeology. subarctic
Mackenzie valley
Spence River phase
Plains notched points
Aishihik
Arctic
Klo
Mackenzie Valley
Spence
Spence River
Subarctic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.507.4639
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-3-195.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. Artifacts from more than 20 late prehistoric components in the Mackenzie valley are described and compared with those from contem-poraneous assemblages from neighbouring areas. MacNeish’s Spence River phase is expanded to cover this material, which seems to exhibit at least some integrity and distinctiveness, and which appears to.date from about A.D. 700 to the time of European.contact. Certain technologica1,similarities are noted with the Klo-Kut and Aishihik phases to the West and the late Taltheilei tradition to the East, but these similarities are difficult to synthesize into any meaningful outline of Canadian Athapaskan prehistory.

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