Salmon (Other Keyword)

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Aboriginal Patterns of Trade Between the Columbia Basin and the Northern Plains (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gillette Griswold.

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The Earliest Catch: The Origins of Salmon Fishing in the Alaskan Interior (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Briana Doering.

Ethnographic records indicate that salmon fishing was a primary activity for Athabaskan people living in Alaska’s interior. Evidence of fish use in antiquity is difficult to assess due to the highly degradable nature of delicate fish bones. Fishing in the archaeological record is identified by fishing tools in addition to faunal remains. This poster will discuss the antiquity of salmon fishing in Alaska's interior through a GIS-based comparison of anadromous fish streams and evidence of fishing...


Innovation, Intensification, and "Maritimeness" 4,500 Years Ago at Chignik, Alaska (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Knudsen. Joseph Pnewski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the south side of the central Alaska Peninsula, close to culture-history's boundary between "Eskimo" and "Aleut," lies Chignik. Most archaeological investigations and explanations in the broader region have emphasized the overwhelming importance of resources derived from the sea. But at Chignik, evidence of a divergent facet of maritime adaptation has been...