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DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. McMahan. H. Kory Cooper.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The incursion of colonial Russian fur hunters into the Pacific spanned more than a century, resulting in 20 principal Alaskan settlements. Russian entrepreneurs, deep-rooted in a feudal system adapted to the conquest of Siberia during the 16th-17th centuries, applied this cultural framework to 18th century...