XPM-098 Sharpening stone. Sapsuk River, Alaska

Description

XPM-098 Heavily used shaping and sharpening tool that has been polished and grooved, recovered from XPM-098 Trench 2, frozen overburden, catalog number 495. Dates between 3100 and 2300 BCE. SR08-01-T2- Overburden Sapsuk River, Nelson Lagoon area, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. Several salmon fishing sites. Early period dating 3200-2100 BCE, and a later occupation 100 BCE to 500 CE. Original digitizing work done at the IVL at Id. St. Univ. Subsequent processing completed at Global Digital Heritage. Maschner, H. et al. 2010. The Archaeology of the Sapsuk River, Alaska. An Occasional Papers Publication. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Region, Branch of Regional Archaeology, Anchorage.