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Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands
Well-illustrated summary of Waldmar Jochelson's 1909-1910 Aleut-Kamchatka expedition.
145 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 2002
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August 7, 2016
For a late Victorian archaeologist, Jochelson is amazing. There's a bit of skull-measuring and a few odd conclusions attributable to the state of knowledge of the age, but he (and Mrs. Jochelson, very occasionally mentioned/seen in the background of site photographs) excavates in a manner more developed and sensical than would arise in the West for another forty years, listens to the natives, and takes the popular perceptions of his era head-on.
Recommended to anyone with an interest in the circumpolar peoples and/or pre-metallic technology: some of the feats of engineering with stone and organic materials (such as the brutal efficiency of Aleut war-spears, lightweight enough to be cast accurately at 35m, guided by a stone tip harder than metal followed by a bone harpoon section the length of the depth of a human torso) are fascinating.
Recommended to anyone with an interest in the circumpolar peoples and/or pre-metallic technology: some of the feats of engineering with stone and organic materials (such as the brutal efficiency of Aleut war-spears, lightweight enough to be cast accurately at 35m, guided by a stone tip harder than metal followed by a bone harpoon section the length of the depth of a human torso) are fascinating.
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