Denetasiro Culture

The Denetasiro peoples inhabited the Southwest Yukon, and interior forests of the Northwest Territories and probably spread into central Alaska and east into northern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Denetasiro culture probably began about 1000-2000 B.C. and continued up to about 1900 A.D. in some areas. These cultures were probably descended from Northwest Microblade Tradition cultures and were immediately ancestral to the historic Athapascan speaking peoples of the western half of Canada. The Denetasiro region included all the cultures to the west of the Algonquin dominated east and south and extended north as far as the Inuit cultures of the Arctic. This period marked the decline of Northwest Microblade complexes and is noted for the widespread use of polished stone wood-working tools. These cultures subsisted on seasonal hunting fishing and trapping in a boreal forest setting.

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From: Willey, Gordon R. An Introduction to American Archaeology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall inc., 1966

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