Determining Initial Firing Temperatures of Thule Era (1000-250 ya) Pottery from Two Northwest Alaskan Archaeological Sites

• Main Author: Duelks, Jonathan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: PDXScholar 2015
• Subjects: Arctic regions > Antiquities; Alaska > Antiquities; Firing (Ceramics) > Analysis; Arctic; Cape Krusenstern; Alaska
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/honorstheses/155; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1173&context=honorstheses

This research was conducted to investigate the initial firing temperatures (IFT) of pottery from two archaeological sites in Northwest Alaska. Arctic ceramics are consistently described as low-fired technology in archaeological and ethnographic literature. However, regional and temporal variation in...