William B Workman
Biographic Data
| ID | 172926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William B Workman |
| GIVEN NAMES | William B |
| FAMILY NAME | Workman |
| SIGNATURE | WORKMAN W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The End of the Kachemak Tradition on the Kenai Peninsula, Southcentral Alaska
The Kachemak tradition was established by ca. 3000 B.P. in Kachemak Bay. Probably somewhat later a variant termed Riverine Kachemak, with a population adapted to salmon and terrestrial resources, appeared on the northern Kenai Peninsula. The Kachemak tradition people seem to have abandoned Kachemak Bay by ca. 1400 B.P. Seven of 12 available Kachemak tradition dates predate 1400 B.P. even at two sigma. Scattered younger dates are thus suspect outl…
Pioneer and Contemporary: Frederica de Laguna's Contributions to the Anthropology of Southcentral Alaska
During the years from 1930 to 1933 Frederica de Laguna undertook 26 months of anthropological research in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, resulting in the publication of two major archaeological monographs and (with Birket-Smith) an ethnographic monograph on the Eyak of the Copper River Delta. After 1933 her attention shifted to other parts of southern Alaska, although she worked extensively with the Ahtna of the Copper River region (1958–19…
No Vestige of a Beginning--No Prospect of an End: Allen McCartney's Contributions on the Problem of Cultural Frontiers and Ethnic Boundaries
I examine identification of prehistoric ethnic boundaries with a focus on the Eskimo/Aleut interface on the Alaska Peninsula and the contributions of Allen McCartney on this topic. McCartney has long been critical of simplistic ethnic identifications in prehistory. In his later writings he emphasizes continuity rather than boundaries in trait distributions and he appears to despair of relating material culture, physical type, and language to one …
Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts (At the End of the Eighteenth and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century)
Journal Article Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts (At the End of the Eighteenth and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century) Get access Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts (At the End of the Eighteenth and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century). By Liapunova Roza G, translated by Jerry Shelest, with William B. Workman and Lydia T Black. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1996. xxii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, …
Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Anthropology in the Arctic: A Critique of Racial Typology and Normative Theory [and Comments and Reply]
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The chronology and affinities of the "Dyuktai culture," an Upper Paleolithic assemblage from northeastern Siberia, are discussed. Geoarchaeological and chronometric data suggest that Dyuktai assemblages are no older than the middle part of the early Sartan Glacial (ca. 18,000 B.P.) and are substantially younger than claimed in the Russian literature. Since Dyuktai assemblages have been argued to resemble those of the New World Paleo-Arctic tradit…
An Examination of Prehistoric Copper Technology and Copper Sources in Western Arctic and Subarctic North America, by U.M. Franklin, E. Badone, R. Gotthardt and B. Yorga
The Archaeology of Beringia, by Frederick Hadleigh West
Alaska Native Culture and History
Recent Archeological Work in Kachemak Bay, Gulf of Alaska
Excavations since 1974 have built upon de Laguna's pioneering classification of Pacific Eskimo prehistory. The Chugachik site (SEL 033) yielded abundant artifactual and paleoenvironmental information dated mainly between c. 350 B.C. and 250 A.D. While artifacts were scarce at Cottonwood Creek (SEL 030), dated at about 200 A.D., data on human biology, paleopathology, social stratification and mortuary ceremonialism were recovered. The Yukon Island…
Archaeology: The Eskimos and Aleuts . Don E. Dumond
Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival among the Alaska Kutchin
Journal Article Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival among the Alaska Kutchin Get access Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival among the Alaska Kutchin. By Nelson Richard K.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xv, 339 p. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $10.50.) William B. Workman William B. Workman Alaska Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
V. S. Khromchenko's Coastal Explorations in Southwestern Alaska, 1822
Archeology: A Summary of Archaeology in the Katmai Region, Southwestern Alaska. D. E. Dumond
The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The chronology and affinities of the "Dyuktai culture," an Upper Paleolithic assemblage from northeastern Siberia, are discussed. Geoarchaeological and chronometric data suggest that Dyuktai assemblages are no older than the middle part of the early Sartan Glacial (ca. 18,000 B.P.) and are substantially younger than claimed in the Russian literature. Since Dyuktai assemblages have been argued to resemble those of the New World Paleo-Arctic tradit…
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropology in the Arctic: A Critique of Racial Typology and Normative Theory [and Comments and Reply]
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
No Vestige of a Beginning--No Prospect of an End: Allen McCartney's Contributions on the Problem of Cultural Frontiers and Ethnic Boundaries
I examine identification of prehistoric ethnic boundaries with a focus on the Eskimo/Aleut interface on the Alaska Peninsula and the contributions of Allen McCartney on this topic. McCartney has long been critical of simplistic ethnic identifications in prehistory. In his later writings he emphasizes continuity rather than boundaries in trait distributions and he appears to despair of relating material culture, physical type, and language to one …
Archeology: A Summary of Archaeology in the Katmai Region, Southwestern Alaska. D. E. Dumond
V. S. Khromchenko's Coastal Explorations in Southwestern Alaska, 1822
Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival among the Alaska Kutchin
Journal Article Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival among the Alaska Kutchin Get access Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival among the Alaska Kutchin. By Nelson Richard K.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xv, 339 p. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $10.50.) William B. Workman William B. Workman Alaska Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Archaeology: The Eskimos and Aleuts . Don E. Dumond
Recent Archeological Work in Kachemak Bay, Gulf of Alaska
Excavations since 1974 have built upon de Laguna's pioneering classification of Pacific Eskimo prehistory. The Chugachik site (SEL 033) yielded abundant artifactual and paleoenvironmental information dated mainly between c. 350 B.C. and 250 A.D. While artifacts were scarce at Cottonwood Creek (SEL 030), dated at about 200 A.D., data on human biology, paleopathology, social stratification and mortuary ceremonialism were recovered. The Yukon Island…
An Examination of Prehistoric Copper Technology and Copper Sources in Western Arctic and Subarctic North America, by U.M. Franklin, E. Badone, R. Gotthardt and B. Yorga
The Archaeology of Beringia, by Frederick Hadleigh West
Alaska Native Culture and History
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Anthropology in the Arctic: A Critique of Racial Typology and Normative Theory [and Comments and Reply]
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The chronology and affinities of the "Dyuktai culture," an Upper Paleolithic assemblage from northeastern Siberia, are discussed. Geoarchaeological and chronometric data suggest that Dyuktai assemblages are no older than the middle part of the early Sartan Glacial (ca. 18,000 B.P.) and are substantially younger than claimed in the Russian literature. Since Dyuktai assemblages have been argued to resemble those of the New World Paleo-Arctic tradit…
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts (At the End of the Eighteenth and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century)
Journal Article Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts (At the End of the Eighteenth and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century) Get access Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts (At the End of the Eighteenth and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century). By Liapunova Roza G, translated by Jerry Shelest, with William B. Workman and Lydia T Black. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1996. xxii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, …
No Vestige of a Beginning--No Prospect of an End: Allen McCartney's Contributions on the Problem of Cultural Frontiers and Ethnic Boundaries
I examine identification of prehistoric ethnic boundaries with a focus on the Eskimo/Aleut interface on the Alaska Peninsula and the contributions of Allen McCartney on this topic. McCartney has long been critical of simplistic ethnic identifications in prehistory. In his later writings he emphasizes continuity rather than boundaries in trait distributions and he appears to despair of relating material culture, physical type, and language to one …
Pioneer and Contemporary: Frederica de Laguna's Contributions to the Anthropology of Southcentral Alaska
During the years from 1930 to 1933 Frederica de Laguna undertook 26 months of anthropological research in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, resulting in the publication of two major archaeological monographs and (with Birket-Smith) an ethnographic monograph on the Eyak of the Copper River Delta. After 1933 her attention shifted to other parts of southern Alaska, although she worked extensively with the Ahtna of the Copper River region (1958–19…
The End of the Kachemak Tradition on the Kenai Peninsula, Southcentral Alaska
The Kachemak tradition was established by ca. 3000 B.P. in Kachemak Bay. Probably somewhat later a variant termed Riverine Kachemak, with a population adapted to salmon and terrestrial resources, appeared on the northern Kenai Peninsula. The Kachemak tradition people seem to have abandoned Kachemak Bay by ca. 1400 B.P. Seven of 12 available Kachemak tradition dates predate 1400 B.P. even at two sigma. Scattered younger dates are thus suspect outl…
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