Dene -- Antiquities, Dene -- History, Dene, Alaska -- Antiquities, Alaska 

"Northern Athapaskan prehistory, primarily in central Alaska, is the subject of this report. Archaeological remains from two late prehistoric/early historic sites in east central Alaska are presented. Dakah de'nin's vilage site, on the Copper River, represents a protohistoric (early nineteenth century) Ahtna Athapaskan village. The Dixthada site, near Mansfield Lake in the Upper Tanana Valley, yielded materials which have been placed in two components -- a late prehistoric occupation, dating from 470 + 60 BC. (P-1834), and a later prehistoric/early historic occupation, dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and later. The more recent component at Dixthada represents an Upper Tanana Athapaskan occupation. The assignment of remains from these sites to two groups of Northern Athapaskans is supported by a review of the history of contact in each area and ethnographic data. The recency of the collections itself suggests their affiliation with Northern Athapaskans. Data from these two sites and from a late prehistoric to historic Kutchin Athapaskan site (Klo-kut) in the northern Yukon Territory (Morlan 1973a) form the base for an examination of the problem of whether or not the archaeological data alone would warrant the definition of three distinct groups of Pacific Drainage Athapaskans during prehistoric and early historic time."--page ii. 

xi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. 

Includes bibliographical references.