Northeastern Asian-Northwest America microblade tradition: and the Ice Mountain microblade and core industry

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dc.contributor.advisorForbis, Richard G.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Jason Wallace
dc.coverage.spatial200000401en
dc.coverage.spatial2000002844en
dc.date.accessioned2005-07-19T20:21:29Z
dc.date.available2005-07-19T20:21:29Z
dc.date.issued1974
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 153-173.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis deals primarily with two archaeological problems: first, the technological and typological nature of the Ice Mountain microblade and core industry and its relationships with other similar industries in Northwest North America and Northeast Asia; and second, the technological-typological, temporal-spatial character of one particular and distinctive trans-Beringian industrial tradition. Specifically, it is proposed that there existed in Upper Palaeolithic and post-Pleistocene times a lithic industrial tradition which is identified by the title "Northeast Asian-Northwest American Microblade Tradition," and abbreviated as NANAMT. It is further proposed that peoples carrying that tradition had arrived in northern British Columbia by approximately 9,000-8,000 years ago, leaving behind remnants of their subsistence activity in the form of the Ice Mountain microblade and core industry. A demonstration of this proposal is set out based upon comparisons of the Ice Mountain material with other specimens and microblade industries known from Northwest North America and Northeast Asia. These comparisons are based, in part, upon the morpho-typology exhibited by the diagnostic features of such industries--the form of the cores from which micro blades were i;·e.moved. In larg.er part, emphasis is placed upon the unity exhibited in the manufacturing patterns, and a techno-typology is established which organizes the primary features of these patterns into manipulative categories.
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dc.format.extentxi, 197 leaves :ill. ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier82480917en
dc.identifier.citationSmith, J. W. (1974). Northeastern Asian-Northwest America microblade tradition: and the Ice Mountain microblade and core industry (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/18674en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/18674
dc.identifier.lccGN 498 B78 S53 1974en
dc.identifier.other82480917en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/13828
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
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dc.subject.lccGN 498 B78 S53 1974en
dc.subject.lcshArrowheads
dc.subject.lcshProjectile points
dc.titleNortheastern Asian-Northwest America microblade tradition: and the Ice Mountain microblade and core industry
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineArchaeology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.thesis.notesPLen
ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleasenoen
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