RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The Northern Archaic Tradition in Southwestern Alaska JF Arctic Anthropology JO Arctic Anthropol FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 153 OP 162 DO 10.1353/arc.2011.0074 VO 41 IS 2 A1 Robert E. Ackerman YR 2004 UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/41/2/153.abstract AB In southwestern Alaska sites producing side-to-corner notched, bifacial projectile points have been found on the Kuskokwim Bay coast, along the Goodnews River valley, and around Kagati Lake in the interior. The open tundra context of the sites and the nature of the artifact assemblages reflect the activities of terrestrially oriented, mid-Holocene (6000 to 4000 B.P.1) caribou hunters (Northern Archaic tradition). Six of the sites were encampments where tools were repaired or manufactured using a bifacial flaking procedure and where prey animals were processed. The seventh site, near Kagati Lake, was a combination encampment and kill site. Caribou were driven between converging lines of stone cairns into a pond where they were dispatched. This is the first indication of the use of drive lines or fences by Northern Archaic tradition hunters.↵Robert E. Ackerman, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4910