Doctoral Dissertation: A Tale of Three Villages: Archaeological Investigation of Culture Change in Western Alaska

摘要0094664(普莱斯，弗林克)阿拉斯加的切瓦克村是爱斯基摩人的家园，他们仍然实行以生计为基础的经济。切瓦克的居民与三个考古村遗址相连，这些遗址先后被许多现在的成员和切瓦克居民的直系祖先占据。初步的考古学和口述历史数据表明，两个遗址在一般聚落模式和位置上发生了变化，特别是失去了男人的房子和遗址内的隧道，以及储存设施的大小和分布发生了变化。据推测，这种模式的转变反映了由于欧洲接触而产生的社会和经济转型。本研究将运用考古学和民族志相结合的方法，记录和解释三个村落遗址的聚落形态变化。

Abstract for 0094664 (Price, Frink)The village of Chevak, Alaska, is home to a community of Cup'ik Eskimos who still practice a subsistence-based economy. The inhabitants of Chevak are connected to three archaeological village sites that have been sequentially occupied by many of the present members and direct ancestors of Chevak residents. Preliminary archaelological and oral historic data have indicated changes between the sites in general settlement pattern and location, specifically the loss of the men's house and intra-site tunnels, and changes in storage facility size and distribution. It is hypothesized that the shifting patterns reflect socail and economic transitions as a result of European contact. This dissertation research will use both archaeological and ethnographic methods to document and explain settlement pattern variation at the three village sites.