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Notes on Two Archaeological Discoveries in Northern Alaska, 1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ralph S. Solecki
Ralph S. Solecki*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Several significant pre-Eskimo finds related to early aboriginal occupations in North America were made north of the Arctic Circle during the 1950 season in Alaska. These discoveries were made within and just bordering the northern side of the Brooks Range mountain province. Two of the more important finds were made by Milton C. Lachenbruch and Robert J. Hackman of the U.S. Geological Survey. Another important find was made by Irving, a student at the University of Alaska (Giddings, 1950, p. 20). Lachenbruch's and Hackman's specimens were submitted to the writer for study and are described summarily in this paper. It is reported that Irving found lithic cultural remains similar to those found by Hackman not far from the latter's station near Anaktuvuk Pass.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 1Part1 , July 1951 , pp. 55 - 57
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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