Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . he soil, as occurred during the later Paleo-Eskimo occupation. Nearly 1,500 artifacts have been found in the Denbigh culture collection is characterized by tools and techniques that, with fewexceptions, bear little resemblance to cultural materials generally rec-ognized as Eskimo (Giddings, 1951). Burins, or gravers in the European sense, and their spalls dis-carded in sharpening comprise about a quarter of the Denbigh flintcollection (Giddings, 1951, figs. 59a, 6oa). Burins apparently had notbeen recognized elsewhere in America before the exca
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . he soil, as occurred during the later Paleo-Eskimo occupation. Nearly 1,500 artifacts have been found in the Denbigh culture collection is characterized by tools and techniques that, with fewexceptions, bear little resemblance to cultural materials generally rec-ognized as Eskimo (Giddings, 1951). Burins, or gravers in the European sense, and their spalls dis-carded in sharpening comprise about a quarter of the Denbigh flintcollection (Giddings, 1951, figs. 59a, 6oa). Burins apparently had notbeen recognized elsewhere in America before the excavation of lyata- EXPLANATIONvertical f horizontal scale e I t t * s reef MAP s \ \ s Area In whith Denbigh\ ^ ^ ^ flint layer li o/u/jiq Atit cf fcH in Denbighj-s^ fttnt laytr, Hachuras^*m, hdicott JMeper croi/arturiit4 liab i^^-^^Charrtd grea--nri> probably a hearth^c* Larqe stonei SECTIONS NeOEskimomidden Palst-Cskimomidden Sterile sandytilt Denbiah flint fST tlayer r^~\ Roeks, eand,(. silt EI3 /\\\\ N\\\ \\ ^^^. |\ ^ \^ ^ \ \ \ v. West Wall, pes ^^^s:^SP?p v\ \ Rocks,. silt Longitudinal Section olonq Nortli Wall Fig. 6.—Map and cross sections showing folds in the Denbigh culture layer in pits PE-ithrough PE-8. Note large gaps where Denbigh culture layer is missing upslope from folds(lower left part of map). A well-defined turf layer separates the Paleo-Kskimo and Neo-Eskimo middens in many parts of the site but is lacking in the area shown here. 14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 121 yet. A variety of forms are present, several of which fall into typesknown from the Aurignacian and later periods of European pre-his-tory. Referable to the same periods and places are a few otherspecial forms found at lyatayet, including keeled scrapers, flake knives,and gravette-like blades (op. cit., fig. 59b). Lamelles and cores—microlithic blade developments known asearly as the late Paleolithic, and with a geographic spread that in-cludes large parts of Eurasia and
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