| This thesis provides an examination of cultural materials recovered through excavations conducted in 1990, 1991 (Gotthardt 1992), and 2000, at the archaeological site KdVa-8 at Tatlmain Lake, central Yukon Territory. Interpretations focus on two thematic objectives: the first research objective is to provide a descriptive analysis of archaeological materials and compare them with interpretational models currently being used in the western subarctic. The second is to use an ethnographic analogy, derived principally from the works of Catherine McClellan (1975) and Dominique Legros (1981), to guide the interpretation of site function through time. The results of this study suggest that KdVa-8 was occupied from 3600 B.P., to the historic era, spanning both the Taye Lake and Aishihik phases of the late-Holocene. General analogies with ethnographically documented Northern Tutchone Athapaskan subsistence economies were observed during both occupations of the site. |
