Hand of fate 2 the far north7/13/2023 To tell the story of human migration in Alaska’s national parklands, we must consider the archaeological record of the entire state and the neighboring regions in Canada and Russia. This article describes human migrations into and through Alaska over the past 14,000 years to provide a better understanding of who created the archaeological sites found within Alaska’s national parklands. The timing and causes of these major population resettlements remain a major topic of archaeological interest, and understanding the nature of human migrations is a fundamental step toward interpreting the archaeological record. Archaeologists reserve the term colonization for those migration events of the first people into a new area. Archaeologists most commonly use the term migration to refer to long-distance moves with the intention of residing in a new location permanently. Ethnographic data show Native Alaskan populations typically limited their residential moves within familiar territories (e.g., Burch 2006) however, the archaeological record demonstrates there were times in prehistory when humans spread from their homelands to new areas, sometimes lands where humans had never lived before. Arctic hunters travel to a new camp near the sea.įrank and Frances Carpenter collection, Library of CongressĪncient hunter-gatherers of the Arctic and Subarctic regions were nomadic people that moved camp regularly with the seasons.
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