An Ipiutak outlier
Subtitle: a 1,500-year-old qarigi at Qitchauvik on the Golovnin Lagoon : the Golovin Heritage Field School, 1998-2000
By: Owen K. Mason ... [et al.].
Contributors: Mason, Owen K.; Shared Beringian Heritage Program (U.S.); United States. National Park Service. Alaska Regional Office.
Publisher: National Park Service, Alaska Region
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Golovin; Inupiat -- Alaska -- Golovin -- Antiquities; Eskimos -- Alaska -- Golovin -- Antiquities; Paleoclimatology -- Alaska -- Seward Peninsula; Golovin (Alaska) -- Antiquities
Notes: Cover title.

"A publication of the Shared Beringian Heritage Program."

"NPS technical report number NPS/AR/CRR/2007-67."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-196).
Table of contents: title: Background: Development of a community-based heritage program: Legal context; title: Field school narrative; title: Context for the Golovin Archaeological Field School: Geographic and ecological constraints; title: Previous archaeological research on southern Seward Peninsula; title: Cultural chronology of the Seward Peninsula; title: The 18th to 20th centuries A.D. in northern Norton Sound; title: Physical anthropology; title: Landscape constraints on prehistory: Coastal geomorphology of Golovnin Bay: Geomorphic reconnaissance of Golovnin Bay beaches; title: Qitchauvik Beach Ridge complex:geomorphic background for the Qitchauvik site; title: Chronology and Paleoclimatic implications of the Qitchauvik Beach Ridges; title: Regional correlations with Qitchauvik Beach Ridges; title: Qitchauvik site (SOL-143): Topography of feature 1; title: Golovin Field School: narrative and methods: The 1998 session; title: The 1999 session; title: The 2000 session; title: Methods; title: Excavation strategy; title: Excavation protocols; title: Stratigraphic within Qitchauvik Feature 1; title: Architecture of the Qitchauvik Qarigi; title: Architectural evidence for a central hearth; title: Reconstructing the structure; title: Chronometric dates from Golovnin Bay sites; title: Chronostratigraphy of Little Rocky Point as a climatic proxy; title: collections from Qitchauvik Feature 1: Analytical considerations; title: Land hunting and sea hunting; title: Fishing equipment; title: Bird hunting; title: Cultural affinities of bone points; title: Other hunting implements; title: Intrasite spatial distribution of hunting implements and fauna; title: Lithic technological attributes; title: Stone tools associated with hunting; title: Other bifaces; title: Unifacial tools; title: Lithic debitage; title: Food preparation and household; title: Organic tools; title: Miscellaneous artifacts; title: Ritual or decorative artifacts: carved effigies and maskettes: Human figures; title: Caribou figures; title: Browband; title: Incomplete organic objects: Antler; title: Ivory; title: Wood; title: Detritus; title: Faunal remains: Fur; title: Bark, ivory and fire-cracked rock; title: Conclusions about daily life at Qitchauvik; title: Wood artifacts and technology at Qitchauvik: Analytical methods; title: Wood identification procedures; title: Artifact descriptions; title: Hunting and fishing equipment: Bows; title: Shafts; title: Processing tools; title: Household items; title: Transport: Paddles; title: Cross piece or cross bar for boats or sleds; title: Wood slats: boat or sled parts; title: Observations of the slats; title: Objects of uncertain use; title: Other woody material; title: General characteristics of the wood artifacts; title: Discussion: Use of wood and woodworking techniques at Qitchauvik; title: Woodworking within the Qitchauvik Qarigi; title: Significance of the Qarigi at Qitchauvik: Cultural interaction and development; title: Field investigations at other localities: Radiocarbon chronology from Ipnauchauq and Kuvrawik; title: Ipnauchauq; title: Kuvrawik and Ikniituq; title: Results of shovel testing in 1998; title: Place of Qitchauvik in prehistory: Cultural interaction along Norton Sound from 500 B.C. until A.D. 1000; title: Punuk and Thule entry into Norton Sound, A.D. 900-1200; title: Thirteenth century _Punuk Thule" dispersal and afterward; title: Community responses and recommendations: Research priorities and domains in Western Alaska; title: Dendroclimatology from the Golovnin Bay area.