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The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Madonna L. Moss ,
Jon M. Erlandson  and
Robert Stuckenrath
Madonna L. Moss
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Jon M. Erlandson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Robert Stuckenrath
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15238
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Abstract

A series of 29 radiocarbon dates from 11 sites on Admiralty Island span the last 3,200 calendar years. Although our research corroborates many of the results of de Laguna's (1960) earlier work in the area, we find the Tlingit settlement pattern to be at least 1,600 years old, significantly older than previously believed. Dating of a wooden fish weir demonstrates that mass harvesting of salmon has an antiquity of at least 3,000 years.

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Résumé

Una serie de 29 fechas de radiocarbono procedentes de 11 sitios arqueológicos sobre Admiralty Island abarca los ultimos 3,200 años calendarios. Aunque nuestra investigación corrobora la mayoría de los resultados hallados por de Laguna (1960) en el area, encontramos que el patrón de asentamiento Tlingit debe tener, por lo menos, una antigüedad de 1,600 años, significativamente mís viejo de lo que previamente se había pensado. Una fecha de radiocarbono hecha con una muestra de una trampa para peces indica que la cosecha de salmón en gran escala tiene una antigüedad de, al menos, 3,000 años.

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American Antiquity , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 534 - 543
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1989

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