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Excerpt from The Ethnoarcheology of Crow Village, Alaska In Arctic and subarctic America, where the aboriginal lifeways of Indians and Eskimos frequently have endured into the present century, historical archeology rarely has been of primary interest to either the ethnographer or the archeologist. In an area such as western Green land, where there was sustained contact between Europeans and Eskimos, an exception is to be found. Northern Canadian historical archeology has been unsystematic, while in Alaska only along Prince William Sound (de Laguna, 1956; the Gulf of Alaska (acker man, and the lower Copper River (vanstone, 1955) have excavations been made at historic sites. In the Arctic and subarctic of America archeologists have yet to fathom the ramifications of many cultural continuities within the Christian Era, while the path of early man into the New World is still largely unknown. With fascinating problems such as these confronting them, it is not surprising that the archeologists have avoided sites containing tin cans, bottle glass, and crockery. Yet it is precisely these and other forms of trade goods in the context of a rapidly changing sociocultural setting that directed our attention to historical archeology in Alaska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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