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The Sadiron Lamp of Kamchatka as a Clue to the Chronology of the Aleut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

George I. Quimby Jr.
George I. Quimby Jr.*
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Chicago Natural History Museum
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Recent studies of trait distributions by Collins, de Laguna, and Heizer, have, in my opinion, demonstrated a cultural connection between southern Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka, and Kurile Islands. These circum- North Pacific cultural connections seem to have been established after settlement of all the areas mentioned and therefore are not properly a part of the problem of man's first entry into America.

Southern Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka, and the Kurile Islands form a zone or rim around the North Pacific shores of Asia and America. Along this rim of the North Pacific there seems to have been a drifting of traits and trait complexes, both from America to Asia and from Asia to America. And for the most part, the cultural connections of the circum-North Pacific zone seem to have been rather independent of the diffusions and cultural development of the Bering Strait region.

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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , January 1946 , pp. 202 - 203
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946 

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