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A Petroglyph in Northern Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ralph S. Solecki*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D. C.

Extract

A unique stone bearing a number of rude linear cuts (Fig. 44), some in a design, was found in the course of routine fieldwork during the summer of 1950 by a party of geologists of the U. S. Geological Survey, Navy Oil Unit. This field party, to whom the credit for the discovery belongs, was under the leadership of Charles L. Whittington. Also present at the discovery were John Stevens, Leonard Rolnick, Bruce Thompson and Francis Minard. Although petroglyphs as individual items are not uncommon elsewhere on the continent, its occurrence in northern Alaska is singular enough to be worth recording.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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