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.