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Nauyalik Fish Camp: An Ethnoarchaeological Study in Activity-Area Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Claudia Chang
Claudia Chang*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA 24595
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Abstract

This ethnoarchaeological study of an Inupiat Eskimo fish camp examines the formation of activity areas through time-motion studies and the analyses of activity episodes. These observations on two adults using the site during the summer of 1982 are used as examples of how spatially discrete activity areas are shaped by behavioral processes. In this case, activity-area formation is tied to the adaptive strategies of the Inupiat Eskimo cultural system. Specific subsistence-related activities such as food processing, animal butchering, and equipment maintenance leave material residues after tasks are completed. Cognitive and adaptive aspects of the Inupiat cultural system contribute to the spatial organization of this fish camp.

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American Antiquity , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 145 - 157
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1988

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