The Amaknak Bridge Site: Cultural Change and the Neoglacial in the Eastern Aleutians

Abstract

Late Aleutian 1000-200 B.P. Tanaxtaxak (UNL-55) Abundant ground slate, Eider Point (UNL-19) ulus, limited chipped Reese Bay (UNL-63) stone inventory Morris Cove (UNL-9) Multiple-room and Bishop's House (UNL-59) longhouses, fortifi ed refuge rocks.

Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis

“…The new situation presented challenges and opportunities for the Unangax̂. Subsistence practices were adapted to the new circumstances and focused more on ice-bound marine mammal hunting (Knecht and Davis, 2008). Stone bowls peak during this phase (Table 1) with high occurrences at the Margaret Bay (n=434), and Amaknak Bridge (n=71) sites, which suggests the substantial importance of these artefacts in Aleutian daily life at these sites.…”

Stable isotope chemistry, population histories and Late Prehistoric subsistence change in the Aleutian Islands

“…Recent excavations at the Amaknak Bridge site (Knech and Davis, 2001;Knech et al, 2008), a large midden deposit located on the northern coast of Unalaska Island, produced an extensive faunal assemblage containing a broad range of food animals including cetacean, pinniped, and fishes, in addition to shell and urchin remains (Crockford et al, 2004). A series of 11 radiocarbon dates on wood charcoal placed occupation of the site between w2570 and 3585 BP.…”

Prehistoric human responses to volcanic tephra fall events in the Ust-Kamchatsk region, Kamchatka Peninsula (Kamchatsky Krai, Russian Federation) during the middle to late Holocene (6000–500 cal BP)

“…This maritime adaptation proceeded as a gradual movement of populations down rivers and streams from the interior to the coast of the peninsula (Ackerman, 1998;McCartney et al, 1998;Orekhov et al, 1998). By the Middle Neolithic period, maritime subsistence had intensified throughout the North Pacific, resulting in more sedentary coastal communities and a reliance on seamammal hunting (Lebedintsev, 1998;Vasil'evskii 1998;Knecht and Davis, 2008).…”