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 Virginia Hatfield
A1 Kale Bruner
A1 Dixie West
A1 Arkady Savinetsky
A1 Olga Krylovich
A1 Bulat Khasanov
A1 Dmitry Vasyukov
A1 Zhanna Antipushina
A1 Mitsuru Okuno
A1 Susan Crockford
A1 Kirsten Nicolaysen
A1 Breanyn MacInnes
A1 Lyman Persico
A1 Pavel Izbekov
A1 Christina Neal
A1 Thomas Bartlett III
A1 Lydia Loopesko
A1 Anne Fulton
YR 2017
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.