The Kodiak Archipelago
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The Kodiak Archipelago lies off the Pacific coast of Alaska, and the islands traditionally belonged to the Alutiq peoples in Modern times who lived in large settlements, kept slaves, and had a permanent elite (Ames). There are four culture periods in the Late Holocene (LH) period: the Early Kachemak from 1850 - 500 BC, the Late Kachemak from 500 BC to 1200 AD, the Koniag from 1200 AD to contact with Europeans and the Alutiq (Modern). During the Early Kachemak period, mobility patterns changed from residential (foragers) to logistical (collectors). They had small houses, with some residential sites having multiple homes, which suggests either reoccupation with rebuilding, which requires increased investment, or that they lived in larger communities. There were technological and subsistence changes such as the use of toggling harpoons, netweights, and ground slate points which suggest an increase in efficiency of use of marine and littoral resources. There is also evidence of increased processing of food for storage, with evidence of a distinct form of chopping/slicing knife, the ulu. Late Kachemak populations, in contrast, were relatively large, with increasing logistical mobility involving one to 10- houses per settlement (Ames). These people used clay-lined pits and internal facilities in some of the houses for storage. It is thought the households may have had multi-generational control of property. They had elaborate mortuary practices and their graves containe
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