PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hatfield, Virginia
AU  - Bruner, Kale
AU  - West, Dixie
AU  - Savinetsky, Arkady
AU  - Krylovich, Olga
AU  - Khasanov, Bulat
AU  - Vasyukov, Dmitry
AU  - Antipushina, Zhanna
AU  - Okuno, Mitsuru
AU  - Crockford, Susan
AU  - Nicolaysen, Kirsten
AU  - MacInnes, Breanyn
AU  - Persico, Lyman
AU  - Izbekov, Pavel
AU  - Neal, Christina
AU  - Bartlett, Thomas
AU  - Loopesko, Lydia
AU  - Fulton, Anne
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  - 2016 Feb 01
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 Anthropol2016 Feb 01; 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.