Arctic small tool tradition

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Arctic cultural tradition archaeological culture lithic industry

The Arctic Small Tool tradition was an ancient cultural and technological complex of Arctic hunter-gatherers characterized by highly refined miniature stone tools and widespread across the North American Arctic and Greenland.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Saqqaq culture	2
Arctic Small Tool tradition complex	1
Arctic small tool tradition canonical	1
Neo-Eskimo cultures	1
Paleo-Eskimo	1
Paleo-Inuit cultures	1
Paleoeskimo tradition	1
Pre-Dorset culture	1
Saqqaq	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Arctic cultural tradition ⓘ archaeological culture ⓘ lithic industry ⓘ
emergedInPeriod	Late Holocene ⓘ
endTime	circa 800 BCE ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	ASTt ⓘ Arctic small tool tradition ⓘ surface form: Arctic Small Tool tradition complex
hasCharacteristic	high mobility ⓘ highly standardized tool forms ⓘ small, finely made projectile points ⓘ specialized hunting toolkit ⓘ use of organic materials such as bone, antler, and ivory ⓘ widespread geographic distribution ⓘ
hasCulturalType	hunter-gatherer ⓘ
hasEconomy	caribou hunting ⓘ fishing ⓘ gathering of wild plants ⓘ sea mammal hunting ⓘ
hasOrigin	Siberian microblade traditions ⓘ
hasRawMaterial	chert ⓘ fine-grained siliceous stone ⓘ obsidian ⓘ
hasRegion	Alaska ⓘ Bering region ⓘ surface form: Bering Strait region Arctic region ⓘ surface form: Canadian Arctic Greenland ⓘ High Arctic islands ⓘ Mackenzie Valley ⓘ surface form: Mackenzie Delta region Arctic region ⓘ surface form: North American Arctic
hasSettlementPattern	seasonal mobility ⓘ small, short-term camps ⓘ
hasSubtradition	Choris culture ⓘ Denbigh Flint complex ⓘ Independence I culture ⓘ Norton culture (early phase association debated) ⓘ Arctic small tool tradition self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Pre-Dorset culture Arctic small tool tradition self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Saqqaq culture
hasTechnology	finely retouched lithic tools ⓘ microblade technology ⓘ miniature stone tools ⓘ
hasToolType	burins ⓘ drills ⓘ end scrapers ⓘ microblades ⓘ side scrapers ⓘ small bifacial projectile points ⓘ
influenced	Dorset culture ⓘ Arctic small tool tradition self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Paleo-Inuit cultures Thule culture (indirectly through intermediate traditions) ⓘ
relatedTo	Arctic small tool tradition self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Paleo-Eskimo
startTime	circa 2500 BCE ⓘ
studiedInDiscipline	Arctic archaeology ⓘ prehistoric anthropology ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Thule Inuit → partOf → Arctic small tool tradition ⓘ

Dorset culture → precededBy → Arctic small tool tradition ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saqqaq culture

Dorset culture → associatedWith → Arctic small tool tradition ⓘ

this entity surface form: Paleoeskimo tradition

Old Bering Sea culture → followedBy → Arctic small tool tradition ⓘ

this entity surface form: Neo-Eskimo cultures

Arctic small tool tradition → hasAlternativeName → Arctic small tool tradition ⓘ