The people before
Subtitle: the geology, paleoecology and archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska
By: Dixie West ... [et al.].
Series: BAR international series -- 2322; BAR international series -- 2322.
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781407309057
Subjects: Geology; Excavations (Archaeology); Paleoecology; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface. The people before: an introduction to Adak, Alaska / Dixie West; title: The central Aleutians Archaeological and Paleobiological Project / Dixie West ... [et al.]; title: One hundred forty years of archaeology in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Douglas W. VEltre; title: Did holocene paleoenvironmental factors affect ancient Aleut occupation and settlement in the central Aleutian Islands? / Lyn Gualtieri ... [et al.]; title: Holocene tephra layers on the northern half of Adak Island in the west-central Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Mitsuru Okuno ... [et al.]; title: The reconstruction of ecosystems history of Adak Island (Aleutian Islands) during the holocene / Arkady B. Savinetsky ... [et al.]; title: Archaeozoology of Adak Island: 6000 years of subsistence history in the central Aleutians / Susan J. Crockford; title: Ancient DNA analysis for the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) from archaeological sites on Adak, Aleutian Islands / Shin Nishida ... [et al.]; title: Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopic composition of bone collogen and tooth enamel carbonate of the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) from archaeological sites on Adak Island, Aleutian Archipelago / Ame Garong ... [et al.]; title: The Aleut cockle, Clinocardium nuttallii (Conrad, 1837) from ADK-011, Adak Island, Alaska / Hiroko Koike, Chizuru Takashima and Akihiro Kano; title: Invertebrate remains: a Pan Aleutian comparison / Dixie West ... [et al.]; title: Provenance of obsidian artifacts recovered from Adak Island, central Aleutian Islands: evidence for long-distance transport of lithic material / Kirsten Nicolaysen ... [et al.]; title: Six thousand years of lithic technology on Adak in a broader Aleutian context / Elizabeth G. Wilmerding and Virginia Hatfield; title: Clam Lagoon archaeology and technology / Marvin Kay; title: Griddlestones from Adak Island, Alaska: their provenance and the biological origins of organic residues from cooking / Richard Jeannotte ... [et al.]; title: Bone artifacts and debris from three archaeological sites on Adak Island, Alaska / Dixie West and Virginia Hatfield; title: A human burial from the Andreanof Islands, Alaska / Dixie West ... [et al.]; title: Conclusions / Dixie West and Susan Crockford.