Agayadan Village: Household Archaeology on Unimak, Island, Alaska

Hoffman, Brian W.

doi:10.1179/jfa.1999.26.2.147

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“…to contact) phases. At historic contact, Aleuts of the region lived in large communal houses consisting of a main room (nucleus) for corporate activities and a number of side rooms (satellites) that were used for storage, sleeping, and domestic functions (Hoffman, 1996(Hoffman, , 1997(Hoffman, , 1999. These nucleus-satellite houses represent the most distinctive attribute of the last three phases of occupation and appear between 800 and 700 cal yr B.P.…”

Section: Site Distribution and Occupation Historymentioning

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Coastal paleogeography and human occupation of the Western Alaska Peninsula

Jordan

Maschner

2000

Geoarchaeology

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Coastal paleogeography and human occupation of the Western Alaska Peninsula

Jordan

Maschner

2000

Geoarchaeology

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“…Be it for warmth, cooking, or as a location of human contact, fire hearths serve as physical and symbolic focal points of the house and daily life (Anderson 2013; Bloch 2010; Carsten 1995, 114; Davey 2007; Ellickson 2008; Janowski 1995; Kramer 1982; Matthews 2016; Twiss 2007). Fire hearth frequency provides a methodological platform for estimating village population levels (Turner & Lofgren 1966) and tracking households within shared larger buildings (Ames et al 1992) and within villages (Hoffman 1999).…”

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Material Geographies of House Societies: Reconsidering Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Kuijt¹

2018

CAJ

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This paper explores how people within Neolithic villages were connected to co-resident multi-family households, and considers the potential material footprint of multi-family households within Neolithic villages. Drawing upon data from Çatalhöyük, I suggest that Neolithic communities were organized around multiple competing and cooperating Houses, similar to House Societies, where house members resided in clusters of abutting buildings, all largely the same size and with similar internal organization. These space were deeply connected to telling the generative narratives of the House as a historical and genealogical social unit, including the lives and actions of the ancestors, and in some cases embedding them physically within the fabric of the building. Çatalhöyük multi-family House members decorated some important rooms with display elaboration that focused on the past, the future and the family, while the dead from the households, who in many ways were still alive and part of the ancestral House, lived beneath the floor. This study underlines that researchers need to consider social scales beyond the single-family household and consider how the multi-family House existed as an organizational foundation within Neolithic villages.

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“…the Alaska Peninsula (e.g. Workman 1966;McCartney 1974;Yarborough 1974;Dumond 1981Dumond , 1990Dumond , 1998Maschner et al 1997;Jordan & Maschner 2000;Maschner & Jordan 2001;Okada et al 1976Okada et al , 1986; 2. the Shumagins to the south (Johnson 1988(Johnson , 1992Johnson & Winslow 1991;Johnson & Wilmerding 2001); 3. the eastern Aleutians (Laughlin 1951(Laughlin , 1962(Laughlin , 1963(Laughlin , 1966(Laughlin , 1967(Laughlin , 1974(Laughlin /1975(Laughlin , 1980Aigner 1966Aigner , 1970Aigner , 1973Aigner , 1976aAigner , b, 1977Aigner , 1978aAigner , b, 1983Denniston 1966;Lippold 1966;Mc-Cartney 1967;Turner 1972Turner , 1976Turner et al 1974;Veltre et al 1984;Yesner 1988;Hoffman 1999;Davis 2001;Dumond & Knecht 2001;Holland 2001;.…”

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Genetics, prehistory and the colonisation of the Aleutian Islands

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Crawford

Savinetsky

2007

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Socie

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The 1800 km-long Aleutian archipelago represents a model ecosystem to track human–environmental interactions across space and through time. Defining the southern margin of Beringia across which much of the early peopling of the Americas occurred, the Aleutians present a 9000 year record of human occupation in the eastern part of the island chain, and more than 3000 years in the west. Molecular evidence demonstrates: (1) that Aleuts shared common ancestry with Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos of Chukotka; (2) the original patterns of migration into the Aleutian islands were from the Alaskan peninsula in a westward direction with no evidence for island-hopping from Kamchatka; and (3) a highly significant statistical relationship between geography and genetics, based on mtDNA sequences, was observed despite previous population disruption. Historically, the Aleutian region is a rich ecotone, with ocean fisheries, abundant populations of large marine mammals, thick kelp forests, complex near-shore ecosystems and intertidal zones, spawning streams, and a highly diverse avian fauna. Each of these environments and resources has been pivotal in shaping the adaptive strategies of human occupants of the island chain since the initial colonisation of the Aleutians from the Alaskan Peninsula. In turn, Holocene human immigration, prehistoric cultural adaptations and subsequent historic events have had reciprocal impacts on the natural systems of the Aleutians.

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Agayadan Village: Household Archaeology on Unimak, Island, Alaska

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Coastal paleogeography and human occupation of the Western Alaska Peninsula

Coastal paleogeography and human occupation of the Western Alaska Peninsula

Material Geographies of House Societies: Reconsidering Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Genetics, prehistory and the colonisation of the Aleutian Islands

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