Research in Southeast Alaska

Madonna L. Moss

 

Outer Coast of Cape Felix, Suemez Island, AK
photo by J. Erlandson

Research Publications - Peer Reviewed

Newton, Richard G. and Madonna L. Moss (2005) Haa Atxaayi Haa Kusteeyix Sitee, Our Food is our Tlingit Way of Life: Excerpts of Oral Interviews. USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, R10-MR-30, March 2005. Juneau, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) The Status of Archaeology and Archaeological Practice in Southeast Alaska in Relation to the Larger Northwest Coast. Arctic Anthropology 41(2):177-196.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) Island societies are not always insular: Tlingit territories in the Alexander Archipelago and the adjacent Alaskan mainland. In Voyages of Discovery: the Archaeology of Islands, edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick, pp. 165-183. Greenwood Press, Westport, CN.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. University of Oregon Anthropological Paper No. 63. University of Oregon, Eugene. For order information, see <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/pubs/UOpapers03.html>

Moss, Madonna L. (2003) Comment on Huna Tlingit Traditional Environmental Knowledge, Conservation, and the Management of a "Wilderness" Park. Current Anthropology 44(4):96-97.

Lepofsky, Dana, Natasha Lyons, and Madonna L. Moss 2003 The Use of Driftwood on the North Pacific Coast: an Example from Southeast Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology 23(1):125-141.

Lepofsky, Dana, Natasha Lyons, and Madonna L. Moss 2003 The Use of Driftwood on the North Pacific Coast: an Example from Southeast Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology 23(1):125-141.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 2002 Animal Agency and Coastal Archaeology. American Antiquity 67(2):367-369.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 2001 The Archaeology of Obsidian Cove, Suemez Island, Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 38(1):27-47.

Lepofsky, Dana, Madonna L. Moss, and Natasha Lyons 2001 The Unrealized Potential of Paleoethnobotany in the Archaeology of Northwestern North America: Perspectives from Cape Addington Rockshelter, Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 38(1):48-59.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 2001 Shellfish Feeders, Carrion Eaters, and the Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations. American Antiquity 66(3):413-432.

Bowers, Peter M. and Madonna L. Moss 2001 The North Point Wet Site and the Subsistence Importance of Pacific Cod on the Northern Northwest Coast. In People and Wildlife in Northern North America: Essays in Honor of R. Dale Guthrie, edited by S. Craig Gerlach and Maribeth S. Murray, pp. 159-177. BAR- British Archaeological Report International Series 944.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 2000 Wolf's Lair: Middle and Late Holocene Wooden Artifacts from a Sea Cave on Baker Island, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 24:107-128.

Moss, Madonna L. 2000 Changes in Tlingit Food Production after Contact. In Culture Contact and Change in Arctic and Subarctic Areas of Asia and North America. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 25(1):39-47.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998 Northern Northwest Coast Regional Overview. In North Pacific and Bering Sea Maritime Societies: the Archaeology of Prehistoric and Early Historic Coastal Peoples. Arctic Anthropology 35(1):88-111.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1998 A Comparative Chronology of Northwest Coast Fishing Features. In Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, edited by Kathryn Bernick, pp. 180-198. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver.

Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, R. Scott Byram, and Richard E. Hughes 1996 The Irish Creek Site: Evidence for a Mid-Holocene Microblade Component on the Northern Northwest Coast. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 20:75-92.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1996 The Pleistocene - Holocene Transition along the Pacific Coast of North America. In Humans at the End of the Ice Age: the Archaeology of the Pleistocene - Holocene Transition, edited by Lawrence Straus, B. Eriksen, J.M. Erlandson, and D.R. Yesner, pp. 277-301. Plenum Press, New York.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1996 A Terminal Pleistocene Paleoshoreline Feature on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:123-125.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1995 Reflections on North American Pacific Coast Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 9(1):1-45.

Moss, Madonna L. 1993 Shellfish, Gender, and Status on the Northwest Coast of North America: Reconciling Archeological, Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Records of the Tlingit. American Anthropologist 95(3):631-652.

Erlandson, Jon M., Madonna L. Moss, and Richard Hughes 1992 Archaeological Distribution and Trace Element Geochemistry of Volcanic Glass from Obsidian Cove, Suemez Island, Southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 16:89-95.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson (editors) 1992 Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Papers in Honor of Richard H. Jordan. Arctic Anthropology 29(2).

Moss, Madonna L. 1992 Relationships Between Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Re-thinking Culture Area Boundaries. In Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Papers in Honor of Richard H. Jordan. Arctic Anthropology 29(2):5-17.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1992 Forts, Refuge Rocks, and Defensive Sites: the Antiquity of Warfare along the North Pacific Coast of North America. In Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Papers in Honor of Richard H. Jordan. Arctic Anthropology 29(2):73-90.

Moss, Madonna L. , Jon M. Erlandson, and Robert Stuckenrath 1990 Wood Stake Weirs and Salmon Fishing on the Northwest Coast: Evidence from Southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 14:143-158.

Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, and Robert Stuckenrath 1989 The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. American Antiquity 54(3):534-543.

Moss, Madonna L. 1985 Phosphate Analysis of Archaeological Sites, Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. Syesis 17:95-100.

Additonal Publications

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1998 Seacaves Research in Southeast Alaska. Alaska Anthropological Association Newsletter 24(2):11-12.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998. Southeast Alaskan Sequence. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 777-779. Garland, New York.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998 Frederica de Laguna. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, 439-440. Garland, New York.

Moss, Madonna L. 1995 Ancient Tlingit Fishing Sites. Raven's Bones Journal: News of the Native Community: 4(1):4-5. Juneau, AK.

Wooley, Christopher and Madonna L. Moss 1993 10,000 Years of Human History in Southeast. Alaska Geographic, 20(2):22-27.

Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Analysis of the Vertebrate Assemblage. In The Hidden Falls Site, Baranof Island, Alaska, edited by S.D. Davis, pp. 126-150. Aurora Alaska Anthropological Association Monograph Series V.

Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Late Prehistoric Subsistence and Settlement: the Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Records of the Angoon Tlingit. In Developments of Hunting-Fishing-Gathering Maritime Societies on the Pacific. Circum-Pacific Prehistory Proceedings IIIb. Washington State University Press, Pullman.

Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Archaeology and Cultural Ecology of the Prehistoric Angoon Tlingit. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Newton, Richard G. and Madonna L. Moss 1984 The Subsistence Lifeway of the Tlingit People: Excerpts of Oral Interviews. USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region Administrative Document No. 131.

Technical Reports

Moss, Madonna L. 1997 1997 Progress Report: Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter (49-CRG-188): Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast of the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. Report submitted to the Craig Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest, Craig, AK.

Bowers, Peter M., Catherine M. Williams, Robert C. Betts, Owen K. Mason, Russell T. Gould, and Madonna L. Moss 1996 The North Point Site: Archaeological Investigations of a Prehistoric Wet Site at Port Houghton, Alaska. Prepared for USDA Forest Service, Sitka, AK, and Parametrix, Inc, Kirkland, WA, by Northern Land Use Research, Fairbanks, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1995 Heceta Island SEACAVES Survey - 1995 Archaeological Investigations. Report prepared for the Tongass National Forest, Ketchikan Area, Ketchikan, AK.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1994 Archaeological and Paleoecological Studies of some Southeast Alaskan Caves on Baker, Dall, Suemez, and Noyes Islands, Ketchikan Area, Tongass National Forest. Report prepared for the Tongass National Forest, Ketchkian Area, Ketchikan, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1985 Preliminary Results of Archaeological Investigations on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska: 1985 Field Season. Ms. on file, Smithsonian Institution.

Moss, Madonna L. 1983 Cultural Resource Overview for ALP 1986-90 Operating Period Environmental Impact Statement, Hoonah and Sitka Ranger Districts, Chatham Area, Tongass National Forest. USDA Forest Service, Sitka, Alaska.

Moss, Madonna L. 1980 Auke Village. Cultural Resource Notes No. 1, USDA Forest Service, Juneau, AK.