The earliest Alaskan expression of the Arctic Small Tool Tradition, a Paleo-Inuit culture of northern Alaska known for highly specialized microblades and evidence of both caribou and seal hunting.
Ended around 1450 BCE (c. 3,300 years BP) as the Arctic Small Tool Tradition in Alaska transitioned to the Norton tradition, with the Iyatayet site in Alaska confirming stratigraphic succession of Norton materials above Denbigh Flint Complex deposits.
A readable, well-illustrated reconstruction of the earliest Arctic hunters (Arctic Small Tool tradition, Denbigh, Norton, Ipiutak, Birnirk, Old Bering Sea) of the American North.
Places the Denbigh Flint complex and Arctic Small Tool Tradition in the broader continental narrative.