Engendering the house ... : A 1500-year-old Southwest Alaska ena at DIL-088 ...
This research explores the application of a lithic use-wear and technological analysis in conjunction with a spatially driven correspondence analysis to identify activity distribution in a 1,500-year-old house floor in Southwest Alaska that may correspond with gender. Employing ethnographic accounts...
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Washington State University
2020
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7273/000004079 https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/graduate/99900890788701842 |
| Summary: | This research explores the application of a lithic use-wear and technological analysis in conjunction with a spatially driven correspondence analysis to identify activity distribution in a 1,500-year-old house floor in Southwest Alaska that may correspond with gender. Employing ethnographic accounts of Central Yup'ik households, I demonstrate that the archaeological assemblage of the Norton-tradition semi-subterranean structure HP22 exhibits similar activity patterning to a Yup'ik ena (pl: enet) or women's house. This analysis indicates that HP22 may be an early example of the gendered housing pattern that first developed in Alaska circa 1800 BP. The results demonstrate the ability to identify social patterns of ancestral groups through lithic analysis in conjunction with ethnographic examples. ... |
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