The late adoption of pottery technology in the North American Arctic between 2,500 and
2,800 years ago coincides with the development of a specialized maritime economy. Arctic …

The introduction of pottery in North Patagonia (Argentina), approximately 2000 years BP,
allowed hunter-gatherers to exploit resources in new ways, but also required alterations to …

The goal of this project is to understand the influence of population size on human
adaptation processes and culture change during the Mid to Late Holocene in Western …

Contamination of ceramic specimens resulting from sample‐preparation techniques has the
ability to confound efforts of chemical characterization. Primary contamination, identified by …

Ceramic vessel fragments are abundant in late Holocene coastal Alaskan archaeological
sites and until recently, research on northern cooking vessels focused primarily on …

Ernest S. Burch reconstructed the political economy and demography of the Iñupiat of
Northwest Alaska ca. AD 1800 based on extensive interviews in the 1960s–1980s with …

Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in
prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as …

This paper presents the findings arising from neutron activation analysis (NAA) of northern
Chilean domestic ceramic samples from Caleta Vitor (n= 38) and clay samples (n= 15) from …

Researchers have long recognized the Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt) as the first culture to
routinely occupy the northern Alaska coast; however, understanding their exploitation of …

Study of northwest Alaskan ceramic production and distribution patterns has the potential to
provide new evidence of coastal hunter-gatherer mobility and social interaction in the late …