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relative time period: Follows the Paleo-Arctic tradition; precedes the historic period of the ethnographically known Aleut culture
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McCartney, A., Veltre, D. (2001). Aleutian. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1191-5_1
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