An Alaskan coastal archaeological tradition that developed along the Bering Strait around 1000 BCE, introducing pottery and oil-burning lamps to the western Arctic while combining marine and terrestrial hunting.
Ended around 800 CE when it was succeeded by the Thule tradition, which likely developed out of Norton and brought an open-water sea-mammal hunting adaptation with umiaks and dog sleds, expanding eastward across the Arctic.
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.
Covers Arctic Small Tool Tradition and its successors including the Norton tradition in broad continental context.