Thesis
Engendering the house: A 1500-year-old Southwest Alaska ena at DIL-088
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
05/2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000004079
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/125079
Abstract
This research explores the application of a lithic use-wear and technological analysis in conjunction with a spatially driven correspondence analysis to identify activity distribution in a 1,500-year-old house floor in Southwest Alaska that may correspond with gender. Employing ethnographic accounts of Central Yup'ik households, I demonstrate that the archaeological assemblage of the Norton-tradition semi-subterranean structure HP22 exhibits similar activity patterning to a Yup'ik ena (pl: enet) or women's house. This analysis indicates that HP22 may be an early example of the gendered housing pattern that first developed in Alaska circa 1800 BP. The results demonstrate the ability to identify social patterns of ancestral groups through lithic analysis in conjunction with ethnographic examples.
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- Title
- Engendering the house
- Creators
- Kathleen K. Scanlan
- Contributors
- Colin Grier (Advisor) - Washington State University, Department of Anthropology
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Anthropology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900890788701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis