The Old Bering Sea Florescence about Bering Strait
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11838837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Owen K Mason (0000-0003-1558-3184, University of Alaska Fairbanks, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Max Friesen (0000-0001-8130-5428), Owen Mason |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.24 |
| OpenAlex | W2522149640 |
| ISBN | 9780199766956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Dependent on whaling, a series of complex, sedentary societies termed Old Bering Sea arose around Bering Strait at proximity to resource hot spots, ca. 250 B.C. to A.D. 400, thrived between A.D. 600 and 800 and with influences as late as A.D. 1300. Old Bering Sea developed adjacent to walrus haul-outs and was associated with the most elaborate aesthetic system known in the Arctic. Virtually every artifact was overlain with formalized motifs, as figural representations were crafted, of both animals and humans. This breakthrough was due either to internal societal dynamics or, alternatively, was an artifact of taphonomic factors, such as fortuitous site preservation. The origins of the culture remain obscure, as does its fate; its technology is related to subsequent Punuk and Thule cultures
Archaeology · Arctic · Artifact (error · Biology · Fishery · Geography · Resource (disambiguation · Taphonomy · The arctic · Whaling · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Oceanography · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |