Old Bering Sea is an archaeological culture associated with a distinctive, elaborate circle and dot aesthetic style and is centered on the Bering Strait region; no site is more than 1 km from the ocean. Old Bering Sea is considered, following Henry B. Collins, the initial phase of the Northern Maritime tradition.[1] Despite its name, several OBS sites lie on the Chukchi Sea. The temporal range of the culture is from 400 BC to possibly as late as 1300 AD.[2] Another suggested range is from about 200 BC to 500 AD.[3]
^Henry Collins (1964). "The arctic and the subarctic". In Jennings, Jesse (ed.). Prehistoric Man in the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 85–116. LCCN63-18852.
^Robert Ackerman (1984). "Prehistory of the Asian Eskimo zone". In Damas, D. (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 5, the Arctic. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 106–118.
^Stern, Pamela (2009). The A to Z of the Inuit. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 121. ISBN978-0-8108-6822-9.