Investigating the Utility of Birds in Pre-Contact Yup’ik Subsistence: A Preliminary Analysis of the Avian Remains from Nunalleq

Arts & Humanities

• Pre-contact 100%
• Birds 90%
• Subsistence 78%
• Taxon 23%
• Parkas 19%
• Late Prehistoric Period 17%
• Subsistence Strategies 15%
• Food 14%
• Adornment 13%
• Intake 12%
• Arrow 11%
• Meat 10%
• Archaeological Research 10%
• Raw Materials 10%
• Assemblages 10%
• Southwest 10%
• Ethnographic 8%
• Exploitation 8%
• Clothing 8%
• Excavation 8%
• Historic 8%
• Continuity 7%
• 17th Century 6%
• Resources 6%

Social Sciences

• contact 49%
• food 32%
• seventeenth century 31%
• raw materials 26%
• clothing 24%
• exploitation 21%
• continuity 19%
• resources 10%
• time 8%