Cultural Chronology of Central Interior Alaska

• Main Author: E. James Dixon
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of Wisconsin Press 1985
• Subjects: Central Alaska; Anchorage, AK; Alaska State / Territory; Tanana Valley; Pleistocene; American Paleoarctic Tradition; Chindadn Complex; Late Denali Complex; Northern Archaic Tradition; Athapaskan Tradition; Euro-American Tradition; Chipped Stone; Fauna; Macrobotanical; Metal; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson; Diagnostic Material Culture; Chronology of Central Interior Alaska; Cultural Resources; Archaeological Sites; Ethnohistoric Research; Geophysical Survey; Systematic Survey; Anchorage; Northern Archaic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6067/xcv8457721; https://core.tdar.org/document/457721/cultural-chronology-of-central-interior-alaska

This report includes a reanalysis of key central interior Alaska archaeological sites and analysis of data from recently discovered sites that were used to define the cultural chronology of the central interior Alaska. Diagnostic material cultural elements, with the exception of those for the Euroamerican tradition, were identified and illustrated within this report. Additionally, six cultural traditions and complexes were documented: 1) Chindadn complex (greater than 11,000- c. 10,600 B. P.). 2) American Paleoarctic tradition (c. 10,600-5000 B.P.), 3) Northern Archaic tradition (c. 5000-3500 B.P.), 4) Late Denali complex (c. 3500-1500 B.P.), 5) Athapaskan tradition (c. 1500-100 B.P.), 6) Euroamerican tradition (c. 100 B. P.-present).