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.