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- Title
Archaeological Concepts of Remoteness and Land-Use in Prehistoric Alaska.
- Authors
Krasinski, Kathryn
- Abstract
For the first Americans to establish territories in the New World, the concept of remoteness must have differed considerably from later periods. The Middle Susitna Valley of south-central Alaska was sparsely occupied during the late Pleistocene and underwent millenia of marginal exploration by the earliest Alaskans prior to becoming fully colonized in the early Holocene. For most of prehistory the Susitna Valley was socially and economically “remote.” Disequilibrium dynamics likely influenced cultural adaptations in the Middle Susitna Valley, ultimately transforming a geographically remote location into a familiar place through experience. Reduced remoteness is manifested in cultural traditions that include trails, place names, material culture, and religious beliefs. In the case of the Middle Susitna region its remote position facilitated the maintenance of band level society political organization adjacent to developing social complexity along the coast.
- Subjects
ALASKA state history; POLITICAL organizations; CULTURAL adaptation
- Publication
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 5, p651
- ISSN
0300-7839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10745-018-9987-9