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DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Tremayne. John Darwent. Christyann Darwent. Kelly Eldridge.

This paper presents the results of our reinvestigation of Iyatayet, a multicomponent mid-late Holocene site located in northwest Alaska. Iyatayet is well known as the type site for both the Denbigh Flint Complex and the Norton Tradition in Alaska. Originally, excavated by J. L. Giddings from 1948-1952, this national historic landmark was retested in 2012 and 2013 to assess site condition, threats and disturbances, its current research potential, and to re-evaluate Giddings’ interpretations by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Tremayne.

One of J.L. Giddings’ most important contributions to Arctic archaeology was the discovery and definition of the archaeological cultures known as the Denbigh Flint complex and Norton tradition from the stratified Iyatayet site. There, Giddings produced a descriptive analysis of each culture's tool forms and speculated on their lifeways. His work, however, was designed primarily to answer typological questions rather than processual or adaptive ones. Over the past seventy years, few studies...