Human Ecology. — 1997. — Vol. 25, No. 3, Islands and Laboratories. — p. 459-479. Recent research in the western Aleutians addresses two primary issues: the nature and extent of cultural exchange along the Aleutian chain, and Holocene environmental change and its effects on the development of Aleut culture. Cultural isolation is a major paradigm of researchers working in the...
Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1945. — 131 p. — (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, No. 21). The purpose of this paper is to describe briefly the physical features, history, native inhabitants, and fauna and flora of the Aleutian Islands. It will, we hope, provide an opportunity for our servicemen stationed in the Aleutians to identify the plants and...
New England Journal of Medicine. — 1949. — Vol. 240, No. 26. — p. 1035-1040. Data on the present health status of 117 Aleutian Islanders are presented. The findings will be analyzed in subsequent reports. In some parts of the world there no doubt live groups of people who exhibit the exact basic criteria for an excellent control in many of the experiments of crucial value in...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1980. — 151 p. — (Case studies in cultural anthropology). — ISBN: 0-03-081269-0. This unusual case study integrates vital data and interpretations to give a complete historical picture of the Aleuts, who have lived for 9,000 years in a remote and inhospitable part of the earth, and whose ancestors are connected with the original human...
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. — 2015. — No 37. — p. 67–84. Recent genetic and isotopic analyses of human remains from the Aleutian Islands have revived a defining debate of 20th century northern research in the Americas; that of population continuation versus replacement ∼1000 years ago in the Aleutian region. According to original analyses a particular cranial shape...
Arctic Anthropology. — 2004. — Vol. 41, No. 2. — p. 126-139. An analysis of the kinship terminology used in pre-contact Aleut society reveals a balanced system without indications of matrilineal or patrilineal descent. The social system of the Aleut, especially the nature of the pre-contact descent reckoning, has been a subject of scholarly debate for several decades. The early...