Date of Award
5-2023
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Styleguide
other
Society for American Archaeology
Degree Name
Cultural Resources Management Archaeology: M.S.
Department
Anthropology
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Mark Muniz
Second Advisor
Robert Mann
Third Advisor
Diane Hanson
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Alaska, Archaeology, Lithic, Technological Organization, Adamagan, Norton
Abstract
XSI-00007 is on Chernabura Spit on Chernabura Island, in the outer Shumagin Islands, Alaska. It is the final stop in an archipelago that reaches into the Pacific Ocean and is on the border of three distinct archaeological material culture traditions. The shell mound dates between c. 3000 and 1400 BP, although the materials analyzed here primarily belong to the period between c. 2300 and 1900 BP. This analysis describes the morphology of 599 lithic artifacts to situate the site in its cultural-historical context. It also describes tool features and the platform characteristics, surface areas, and dorsal scar counts of 12,555 pieces of debitage to describe technological organization at the site. These data fill a gap in Chernabura Spit’s culture history after Wilmerding’s (2005) initial description of early and late material culture at the nearby XSI-00040. XSI-00007 was likely a residential site where occupants spent a substantial amount of time. They likely had social connections to other places associated with the Adamagan and Norton phases. Basalt probably arrived as mid to late-stage bifacial cores, while chert tools may have been produced from small, prepared cobbles that were often reduced at another location.
Recommended Citation
REDDINGTON, HOLLIS, "Lithic Technological Organization at a 2200 BP Mound on the Outer Shumagin Islands, Alaska, XSI-00007" (2023). Culminating Projects in Cultural Resource Management. 52.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/crm_etds/52
