Book
Koniag prehistory: archaeological investigations at late prehistoric sites on Kodiak Island, Alaska
W. Kohlhammer • Stuttgart • Published In 1974 • Pages: ix, 271
By: Clark, Donald Woodforde.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is concerned with 'the native culture (of Kodiak) at and shortly preceding the time of historic contact and with the question of earlier cultural change,' i.e., the origins of the Koniag culture (p. 2). The author analyses his own archaeological material, and compares it with archaeological reports on neighboring regions, both on Kodiak Island and on the mainland. He uses ethnohistorical material written by visitors to the Koniag during the 18th and 19th centuries to provide as full a context as possible for his excavated material. Particular attention is paid to neighboring archaeological assemblages in order to develop an account of Koniag origins consistent with what is known for the rest of the North Pacific-Bering Sea area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Weapons
- Personal grooming
- Cultural participation
- General tools
- Burial practices and funerals
- Comparative evidence
- Hunting and trapping
- Fauna
- Marine hunting
- Flora
- Utensils
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alutiiq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- four summers (1961-1964)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- A.D. 1000-1800 (archaeology); mid-1960's (ethnography)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald Woodford Clark
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1968
- Prehistory 172 has been used for both site descriptions and archaeological horizons, as well as for comparisons of Koniag material with the pre-Koniag and the south coast of Alaska, a part of the same file unit. Artifact descriptions are, however, under the appropriate functional categories, such as General Tools 412; faunal remains have been indexed for Fauna (136), floral for Flora (13)7, etc. Plates are located on pages 191-271, but have been indexed for the same subjects as those pages which refer to them.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-188)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74180101
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eskimos--Alaska--Kodiak Island--Antiquities/Kodiak Island (Alaska)--Antiquities