The Old Kiavak Site, Kodiak Island, Alaska, and the Early Kachemak Phase
ABSTRACT. Excavations from 1963 on Kodiak Island, Alaska represent an early regional phase of the Kachemak tradition called “Early Kachemak ” and a local phase called “Old Kiavak. ” Information remains insufficient to fully outline this phase of the third and fourth millennium B.P. owing to poor rec...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.532.6722 2023-05-15T14:19:51+02:00 The Old Kiavak Site, Kodiak Island, Alaska, and the Early Kachemak Phase Donald W. Clark The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1996 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.532.6722 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic49-3-211.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.532.6722 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic49-3-211.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic49-3-211.pdf Key words Kodiak Island Alaska Gulf of Alaska antiquities archaeology Kachemak tradition Eskimos text 1996 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T10:40:59Z ABSTRACT. Excavations from 1963 on Kodiak Island, Alaska represent an early regional phase of the Kachemak tradition called “Early Kachemak ” and a local phase called “Old Kiavak. ” Information remains insufficient to fully outline this phase of the third and fourth millennium B.P. owing to poor recovery of organic artifacts and a very sparse inventory. Comparisons with other Early Kachemak components found on Kodiak Island and elsewhere show considerable geographic variation. The Old Kiavak phase exemplifies one local phase. Radiocarbon dating indicates that occupation of the site extended back in time from approximately 2200 B.P. to 3500 B.P. No major temporal gap existed between Old Kiavak and the antecedent Ocean Bay tradition. Evidence for technological continuity from the Ocean Bay tradition to the Kachemak tradition has been found at site AFG-088 on Afognak Island of the Kodiak group. The Ocean Bay-Kachemak transition tentatively is called the Afognak phase. Radiocarbon dating indicates that this phase began slightly earlier than the Old Kiavak phase, but the two probably overlapped. The seven millennia of cultural continuity thus accorded to Kodiak Island have significant implications for the history of the northern North Pacific region and Eskimo genesis. Text Arctic eskimo* Kachemak Kodiak Alaska Unknown Gulf of Alaska Pacific |
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ABSTRACT. Excavations from 1963 on Kodiak Island, Alaska represent an early regional phase of the Kachemak tradition called “Early Kachemak ” and a local phase called “Old Kiavak. ” Information remains insufficient to fully outline this phase of the third and fourth millennium B.P. owing to poor recovery of organic artifacts and a very sparse inventory. Comparisons with other Early Kachemak components found on Kodiak Island and elsewhere show considerable geographic variation. The Old Kiavak phase exemplifies one local phase. Radiocarbon dating indicates that occupation of the site extended back in time from approximately 2200 B.P. to 3500 B.P. No major temporal gap existed between Old Kiavak and the antecedent Ocean Bay tradition. Evidence for technological continuity from the Ocean Bay tradition to the Kachemak tradition has been found at site AFG-088 on Afognak Island of the Kodiak group. The Ocean Bay-Kachemak transition tentatively is called the Afognak phase. Radiocarbon dating indicates that this phase began slightly earlier than the Old Kiavak phase, but the two probably overlapped. The seven millennia of cultural continuity thus accorded to Kodiak Island have significant implications for the history of the northern North Pacific region and Eskimo genesis. |
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