Archaeological investigations in the Aleutian islands /

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Author / Creator:Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937.
Imprint:Salt Lake City [Utah] : University of Utah Press, c2002.
Description:xx, 145 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Anthropology of Pacific North America
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4629990
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ISBN:0874807204
Notes:Original published as Carnegie Institution of Washington publication no. 432.
Includes bibliography (p. 124-128) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of plates
  • List of text-figures
  • Chapter I..
  • Organization and personnel of the expedition
  • Reasons for an investigation of the Aleut
  • Chapter II..
  • The Journey to the Aleutians
  • Preparations for the journey
  • Unalaska
  • Natural features of the Aleutian Islands
  • Climatic conditions
  • Chapter III..
  • Excavation of ancient Aleut village sites
  • Kitchen middens
  • Excavations on Attu
  • Excavations on Atka
  • Excavations on the Island of Umnak
  • Agla'gax' village site
  • Nutxa'kax' village site
  • Ukix village site
  • Uglu'dax'
  • Excavations on Amaknax Island
  • Ama'knax' site
  • Xata'cxan site
  • Tanaxta'xax' site
  • Excavations on Ukna'dax'
  • Chapter IV..
  • Human remains in kitchen middens
  • Chapter V..
  • Archaeological remains from kitchen middens
  • Harpoon and throwing lance
  • Source material for stone implements
  • Stone implements and weapons
  • Processes in working stone implements
  • Hammer-stones
  • Retouching stone implements
  • Polishing stone implements
  • Stone and bone lamps
  • Description of bone implements
  • Ornamentation of bone implements
  • Labrets
  • Chapter VI..
  • Critical survey of previous work in Aleutian archaeology
  • Chapter VII..
  • Archaeological and ethnological inferences
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary of Aleut words
  • Index