PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Virginia Hatfield
AU  - Kale Bruner
AU  - Dixie West
AU  - Arkady Savinetsky
AU  - Olga Krylovich
AU  - Bulat Khasanov
AU  - Dmitry Vasyukov
AU  - Zhanna Antipushina
AU  - Mitsuru Okuno
AU  - Susan Crockford
AU  - Kirsten Nicolaysen
AU  - Breanyn MacInnes
AU  - Lyman Persico
AU  - Pavel Izbekov
AU  - Christina Neal
AU  - Thomas Bartlett III
AU  - Lydia Loopesko
AU  - Anne Fulton
TI  - At the Foot of the Smoking Mountains: The 2014 Scientific Investigations in the Islands of the Four Mountains
AID  - 10.3368/aa.53.2.141
DP  - 2017 Apr 18
TA  - Arctic Anthropology
PG  - 141--159
VI  - 53
IP  - 2
4099  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/53/2/141.short
4100  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/53/2/141.full
SO  - Arctic Anthropol2017 Apr 18; 53
AB  - An interdisciplinary research team conducted archaeological, geological, and biological investigations in the Islands of the Four Mountains, Alaska during the summer of 2014 as part of a three-year project to study long-term geological and ecological patterns and processes with respect to human settlement. Researchers investigated three archaeological sites on Chuginadak Island (SAM-0014, SAM-0016 and SAM-0047) and two archaeological sites on Carlisle Island (AMK-0003 and SAM-0034) as well as peat, tephra, and lava deposition on those islands. These investigations resulted in the delineation of archaeological sites, documentation of geological and cultural stratigraphy, excavation of house-pit features, visual characterization and sampling of potential lithic sources, and documentation of Unangan occupation in the Islands of the Four Mountains from roughly 3,800 years ago to Russian contact.