Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago: Trends in raw material use and lithic technologies at the Tanginak Spring site

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-40

  Fitzhugh, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLONIZATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PREHISTORIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; SITKALIDAK ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 5444267219     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0076     Document Type: Article

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