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The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 54; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/280781

2325-5064

Madonna L. Moss, Jon M. Erlandson, Robert Stuckenrath,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

A series of 29 radiocarbon dates from 11 sites on Admiralty Island span the last 3,200 calendar years. Although our research corroborates many of the results of de Laguna's (1960) earlier work in the area, we find the Tlingit settlement pattern to be at least 1,600 years old, significantly older than previously believed. Dating of a wooden fish weir demonstrates that mass harvesting of salmon has an antiquity of at least 3,000 years.