New Evidence for the Timing of Arctic Small Tool Tradition Coastal Settlement in Northwest Alaska

• Main Author: Tremayne, Andrew
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Alaska State / Territory; Prehistoric; Biface; Schist; Burin; Slate; Ceramic; Chipped Stone; Dating Sample; Fauna; Fire Cracked Rock; Projectile Point; Flakes; Hammerstone; Basalt cobbles; End Blade; Pot Sherd; Burin Spall. Flake Tool; Square-Based Projectile Point; Chert flake; Harpoon End Blade; Microblade; FCR; Basalt Adze; Lava Rock; Plainware Sherd; Linear Stamped; Denbigh Flint Complex; KTZ-351; KTZ-350; Radio Carbon Dating; KTZ-353; KTZ-352; KTZ-355; KTZ-354; KTZ-357; KTZ-356; KTZ-359; KTZ-358; KTZ-361; KTZ-360; KTZ-164; KTZ-362; KTZ-365; KTZ-122; KTZ-124; KTZ-366; KTZ-326; KTZ-325; KTZ-364; KTZ-363; KTZ-368; KTZ-323; KTZ-369; KTZ-126; KTZ-327; Alaska Regional Office; KTZ-367; KTZ-329; KTZ-332; Arctic Small Tool tradition; Lyatayet; KTZ-096; KTZ-333; KTZ-330; KTZ-334; KTZ-133; KTZ-331; KTZ-141; KTZ_328; Small Tool; KTZ-142; KTZ-349; KTZ-143; KTZ-348; National Park Service; arctic; Archaeological Remains; Historic Background Research; Data Recovery / Excavation; Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis; Site Evaluation / Testing; Arctic; Flint; arctic small tool tradition; Bering Land Bridge; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48512/xcv8459085; https://core.tdar.org/document/459085/new-evidence-for-the-timing-of-arctic-small-tool-tradition-coastal-settlement-in-northwest-alaska

This paper presents the results of a survey of the oldest beach ridges located on Cape Espenberg in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska. The goals were to locate and test Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt) sites to develop a coastal settlement chronology and to establish whether marine reso...