An Overview of Alaskan's Prehistoric Cultures

• Main Author: Gillispie, Thomas E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Margaret Bay; Cook Inlet; Old Bering Sea; Amaknak; Aleutian Islands; Alaska State / Territory; Late Holocene; Prehistoric; Pleistocene; Late Aleutain; Early Holocene; Late Anangula; Early Anangula; Middle Holocene; Athabaskan; Paleoeskimo; Inupiat; Kachemak; Koniag; Paleoarctic; PaleoIndian; Punuk; Ocean Bay Tradition; Birnirk; Ipiutak; Dry Creek; Planoconvex Cobble Tool; Bladelike Flakes; Burin; Bifaces; Projectile points; Chipped Stone; Triangular-shaped Bifacial Points; Unifacial Side Scraper; End Scraper; Wedge-Shaped Microblade Core; 611th; Pacific Air Forces; 611th Air Support Group; XMH-289; XMH-035; United States Air Force; Athabaskan Tradition; Transitional Kachemak and Koniag; Beringian; Paleoarctic Traditions; 11th Air Force; Climate Change; 611th Civil Engineer Squadron; Ethnographic Research; Ethnohistoric Research; Historic Background Research; Collections Research; Records Search / Inventory Checking; Bering Sea; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48512/xcv8459089; https://core.tdar.org/document/459089/an-overview-of-alaskans-prehistoric-cultures

This report provides an overview which adopts a basic approach that describes the broadest outlines of Alaska’s prehistoric culture history as seen against the backdrop of these environmental changes and geographic divides. Results of the many more advanced analyses of prehistoric behavior are omitted for the sake of simplicity, as are the details of the many scholarly debates important in the archaeological literature.