Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A Settlement System Model for the Central Alaska Peninsula Pacific Coast

Allen P. McCartney教授，首席研究员patricia L. McClenahan，联合研究员，阿肯萨斯大学环境动力学系，费耶特维，过去的1000年见证了北太平洋狩猎采集者从小型、平等的家庭群体向复杂的狩猎采集者的过渡。阿拉斯加半岛的上、下太平洋海岸、科迪亚克岛和阿留申群岛在史前就有大量居民居住，公元前1000年后，这些居民参与了阿拉斯加西南部更大的文化互动领域。然而，关于阿拉斯加半岛中部太平洋海岸的史前和历史居民的信息很少。该项目将从波蒂奇湾流域检索考古和环境数据。目标是更好地定义阿拉斯加半岛中部的生存和定居战略，与大阿拉斯加半岛相比，随着时间的推移。该项目将利用目前正在收集的关于Portage湾历史居民的生存-定居系统的民族历史和民族志数据。该项目将有助于记录和保存史前和历史传统以及阿鲁提克人和其他人的文化遗产

ABSTRACT FOR OPP-0103687A Settlement System Model for the Central Alaska Peninsula Pacific CoastProfessor Allen P. McCartney, Principal InvestigatorPatricia L. McClenahan, Co-InvestigatorDepartment of Environmental DynamicsUniversity of Arkansas, FayettevilleThe past 1,000 years witnessed the transition of North Pacific hunter-gatherers from small, egalitarian family-based groups to complex hunter-gatherers. The upper and lower Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak, and the Aleutian Islands were intensely inhabited prehistorically, and after 1,000 B.P. the residents were taking part in a greater southwest Alaska cultural interaction sphere. However, there is little information about the prehistoric and historic inhabitants of the central Alaska Peninsula Pacific coast. The project will retrieve archaeological and environmental data from the Portage Bay watershed. The goal is to better define the central Alaska Peninsula with regard to subsistence and settlement strategies compared to those of the greater Alaska Peninsula through time. The project will utilize ethnohistoric and ethnographic data now being gathered about the subsistence-settlement systems of the historic inhabitants of Portage Bay. The project will contribute to recording and preserving the prehistoric and historic traditions and cultural heritage of the Alutiiq people and others