The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska
A single-component caribou hunting camp, located on a subsiding pingo near the mid-Beaufort Sea coast of North Alaska, yielded a radiocarbon date of almost 6000 years. The Kuparuk Pingo site revealed evidence for use of the Arctic Coastal Plain by peoples of the Northern Archaic tradition and provid...
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1986
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| description | A single-component caribou hunting camp, located on a subsiding pingo near the mid-Beaufort Sea coast of North Alaska, yielded a radiocarbon date of almost 6000 years. The Kuparuk Pingo site revealed evidence for use of the Arctic Coastal Plain by peoples of the Northern Archaic tradition and provides a cultural chronological marker for indicating the potential longevity of pingos. Trade lithic materials from interior Alaska and the presence of bone refuse and bone tools due to the excellent preservation conditions of a pingo environment expanded the knowledge of these intermediate age cultural times in the North.Key words: Northern Archaic tradition, Arctic Coastal Plain, pingo, caribou, North Alaska Mots clés: tradition archaïque du Nord, plaine de la côte arctique, pingo, caribou, Nord de l'Alaska |
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| spelling | ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65097 2025-06-15T14:14:42+00:00 The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska Lobdell, John E. 1986-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65097 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65097/49011 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65097 ARCTIC; Vol. 39 No. 1 (1986): March: 1–107; 47-51 1923-1245 0004-0843 Archaeology Inuit archaeology Pingos Alaska Northern info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1986 ftunivcalgaryojs 2025-05-27T03:29:43Z A single-component caribou hunting camp, located on a subsiding pingo near the mid-Beaufort Sea coast of North Alaska, yielded a radiocarbon date of almost 6000 years. The Kuparuk Pingo site revealed evidence for use of the Arctic Coastal Plain by peoples of the Northern Archaic tradition and provides a cultural chronological marker for indicating the potential longevity of pingos. Trade lithic materials from interior Alaska and the presence of bone refuse and bone tools due to the excellent preservation conditions of a pingo environment expanded the knowledge of these intermediate age cultural times in the North.Key words: Northern Archaic tradition, Arctic Coastal Plain, pingo, caribou, North Alaska Mots clés: tradition archaïque du Nord, plaine de la côte arctique, pingo, caribou, Nord de l'Alaska Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctique* Beaufort Sea inuit Northern Archaic Alaska Unknown Arctic ARCTIC 39 1 |
| spellingShingle | Archaeology Inuit archaeology Pingos Alaska Northern Lobdell, John E. The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska |
| title | The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska |
| title_full | The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska |
| title_fullStr | The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska |
| title_short | The Kuparuk Pingo Site: a Northern Archaic Hunting Camp of the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Alaska |
| title_sort | kuparuk pingo site: a northern archaic hunting camp of the arctic coastal plain, north alaska |
| topic | Archaeology Inuit archaeology Pingos Alaska Northern |
| topic_facet | Archaeology Inuit archaeology Pingos Alaska Northern |
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