Ford, James - Eskimo Prehistory in the Vicinity of Point Barrow (1959)

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Ford, James - Eskimo Prehistory in the Vicinity of Point Barrow (1959)

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Author: Ford, James Alfred

Title: Eskimo Prehistory in the Vicinity of Point Barrow, Alaska 

Year: 1959

Publisher: New York: Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 47, pt. 1.

Pages: 272

Source: American Museum of Natural History 

Description: Excavation in the vicinity of Point Barrow, Alaska, by Ford in the 1930s and 1950s.  "Archeological work began the second week in June, and with a crew of three to four Eskimo I excavated principally at the Birnirk Site (Fig. 1). Brief periods were also spent at Nuwuk (Point Barrow), Nuvuwaruk (near Brower's Trading Post), and in Utkiavik Village (Barrow), working … at Nunavak (6 miles south of Barrow Village), and at Walakpa. The season of thaw terminated at the end of August, and I left Barrow in the Bureau of Education supply ship "North Star" ...

"The third opportunity to visit the archeological sites in the vicinity of Point Barrow was offered me in the summer of 1953. Under the auspices and support of the Arctic Research Laboratory, established at Barrow by the Office of Naval Research, a group of Harvard University graduate students, headed by Wilbert Carter, was completing a three-season program of archeological work in the old sites near Point Barrow" (1959:15).

 
 
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