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Lexical Transcription and Archaeological Interpretation: “A Rock Feature Complex from Northwestern California”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas Buckley
Thomas Buckley*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Harbor Campus, Boston, MA 02125
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Abstract

This Comment responds to Joseph L. Chartkoff's 1983 article, "A Rock Feature Complex from Northwestern California" (American Antiquity 48:745-760). Chartkoff describes two sorts of rock enclosures, identifying them both by a single Yurok-English name. The Comment points out there are at least two distinct words for such enclosures in the Yurok language, and that this linguistic evidence supports Chartkoff's hypothesis that the two sorts of rock features may be historically or ethnographically distinct.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 617 - 618
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1986

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