RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 At the Foot of the Smoking Mountains: The 2014 Scientific Investigations in the Islands of the Four Mountains JF Arctic Anthropology JO Arctic Anthropol FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 141 OP 159 DO 10.3368/aa.53.2.141 VO 53 IS 2 A1 Hatfield, Virginia A1 Bruner, Kale A1 West, Dixie A1 Savinetsky, Arkady A1 Krylovich, Olga A1 Khasanov, Bulat A1 Vasyukov, Dmitry A1 Antipushina, Zhanna A1 Okuno, Mitsuru A1 Crockford, Susan A1 Nicolaysen, Kirsten A1 MacInnes, Breanyn A1 Persico, Lyman A1 Izbekov, Pavel A1 Neal, Christina A1 Bartlett, Thomas A1 Loopesko, Lydia A1 Fulton, Anne YR 2016 UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/53/2/141.abstract 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.