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Sedna Creek: Report on an Archaeological Survey on the Arctic Slope of the Brooks Range

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Karl H. Schlesier
Karl H. Schlesier*
Affiliation:
Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
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Abstract

During the summer of 1964, a field party from Wichita State University conducted a survey in the vicinity of May Lake, 50 air mi. northwest of Anaktuvuk Pass. A large number of heavily patinated artifacts was discovered on and beneath the present ground surface in the flood plain of a small stream not registered on U.S. Geological Survey maps and named Sedna Creek. The artifact assemblage consists of flakes and flake tools, all of which belong to one single tradition. A comparison with Far North assemblages indicates that Sedna Creek is the fourth site of the British Mountain complex. Of Old World sites, Ust-Kanskaia, Tuin-Gol, the Mal’ta-Buret complex, Sannyi Mys, and Chastinskaya appear closely related.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 210 - 222
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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