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Published by Current Anthropology, Chicago, 1960
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 121-138 pages with map, table and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 1, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. James Louis Giddings was an American archaeologist who made significant contributions to Arctic archaeology. During three decades of his fieldwork in Northwest Alaska he established evidence of human occupation raging as far back as 4,000 B.C.E. Giddings was invited by Froelich Rainey to participate in an archaeological project at Point Hope, Alaska. During the excavation, Giddings recognized a new archaeological site in the Arctic. Giddings with Rainey and Danish archaeologist, Helge Larsen, discovered the origins of the Ipiutak settlement. After finding the Ipiutak settlement, Giddings turned his interests toward the Kobuk river region to study the living Eskimos and their ancient settlements. In the forest bordered Kobuk River he began the science of subarctic dendrochronology. Using wooden artifacts from Kobuk River sites, he became the first to use this new dating technique in the Arctic. Giddings continued his research at Norton Bay during the summers of 1948 through 1952. At the site he discovered the Denbigh Flint complex, a previously unknown Paleo-Eskimo culture in Alaska. Condition: Corners bumped, light edge wear else very good.
Published by Brown University Press, Providence [RI], 1964
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Denmark
orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. In a rubbed & chipped dustwrapper., dustwrapp 73pp photoplates 25x18cm, xv,331 pp. Contents: Narrative; Nukleet: Excavations 1948; Excavations 1949; Nukleet Collections 1948: Land Hunting; Sea Hunting; Fishing; Tools & Manufactures;Food Preparation & Household; Clothing, Personal Adornment & Ornamentation; Travel & Transportation; Community; Miscellaneous; Deposits of Nukleet Culture at Iyatayet; The Nukleet Culture; Sites of the Nukleet Culture: Iyatayet; Madjujuinuk; Gungnuk; Difchahak; The Norton Culture; The Denbigh Flint Complex: Definition of the Cultural Layer; Techniques: The Microblade Technique; The Burin Technique; Other Flaking; Grinding, Polishing, etc; The Denbigh Flint Culture; Time & Change at Bering Strait; Dating the Denbigh Sequence; Relation to Other Areas; Appendices: The Ceramic Complexes at Iyatayet; Skull Fragments from Norton Levels at Iyatayet. Minor rubbing. VG. In a rubbed & chipped dustwrapper., dustwrapp.
Published by University Museum, Philadelphia, 1952
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Denmark
orig. wrappers. 46pp photoplates. (illustrator). 27x21cm, ix,143,(46)pp, Series: University of Pennsylvania, University Museum, Museum Monographs Nr. 8. Contents: Economy & Technology: Villages & Houses; Fishing; Land Hunting; Sea Hunting; Travel & Transportation; Tools & Manufactures; Skin Working & Tailoring; Food Preparation; Personal Adornment; Communal Activity; Clay Working; Tree-ring Dating. Rubbed. A 1cm wear to front hinge. Cover corner crease. Good.