A Faunal Analysis of the Outlet Site (XHP315), Etivlik Lake, Northern Alaska
Author(s): Jason Elder; Amelia Jansen; Scott Shirar; Justin Cramb
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Located on the shore of Etivlik Lake in the Brooks Range in Northern Alaska, the Outlet Site (XHP315) consists of numerous late Holocene pit houses. One of these house features (#74) was excavated in 2006 during a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeological field school. Faunal analysis was undertaken by a zooarchaeology class during fall semester of 2022 and the results identified several patterns indicative of prey selection behaviors. Over 12,000 bones and bone fragments were analyzed with a majority of the identified specimens belonging to Rangifer tarandus (caribou). This poster presents and discusses the results of the initial faunal analysis and explores characteristics represented in the assemblage that provide insight into prey selection behaviors by the people that once lived at this site.
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A Faunal Analysis of the Outlet Site (XHP315), Etivlik Lake, Northern Alaska. Jason Elder, Amelia Jansen, Scott Shirar, Justin Cramb. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499652)
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Keywords
General
arctic
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Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers
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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): 39530.0