Near the birthplace of the winds: preliminary report on the 1998 NPS archaeological survey of the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska
VanderHoek R. 1999. Near the birthplace of the winds: preliminary report on the 1998 NPS archaeological survey of the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska
The Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve (ANIA) is centered around the Aniakchak Caldera and the Aniakchak River on the lower Alaska Peninsula. The central Alaska Peninsula surrounding the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve was occupied in late prehistoric times by speakers of the Alutiiq dialect of Yup'ik, referred to by Oswalt as Peninsular Eskimo (Oswalt 1967). The Eskimo/Aleut linguistic boundary is generally located in the Port Moller area to the southwest of the Monument and Preserve )Dumond 1981, Krauss 1982). Boundaries between the material cultures of the above groups are less clear. Some archeologists feel that boundaries for past technological traditions match the already noted regional linguistic boundaries (Dumond, Conton and Shields 1975), while others see the central peninsula as an area where technological elements show a gradual continuum between cultures (McCartney 1969, 1974), and yet others see past technological boundaries to have shifted up and down the peninsula with the ebb and flow of populations and resources in the late prehistoric period (Yesner 1985).
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- VanderHoek, Richard
- Date of Issue
- 1999-03
- Units
- ANIA
- Keywords
- Alaska, Aniakchak Caldera, Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Archaeological Survey, Preliminary report