Subsistence Practices at Healy Lake Village Site
Author(s): Hilary Hilmer
Year: 2018
Summary
Healy Lake Village site (XBD-00020), an important multicomponent site with occupations spanning the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene, provides an important opportunity to address fundamental issues of sub-arctic hunter-gatherers economies as they changed through time. To date, there are a limited number of sites in former Beringia with preserved faunal remains. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is an analytical method that can confirm the visual identifications of burned bone as well as provide the temperature of the heat source. This paper presents the results from a zooarchaeological analysis that used FTIR to address questions relating to cooking/processing practices in eastern Beringia (and the western Subarctic) for recent Athabaskans.
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Subsistence Practices at Healy Lake Village Site. Hilary Hilmer. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444807)
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Keywords
General
Historic
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Historical Archaeology
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America: Arctic and Subarctic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -169.453; min lat: 50.513 ; max long: -49.043; max lat: 72.712 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22445