Threads of Arctic Prehistory
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Threads of Arctic Prehistory

  1. 435 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Threads of Arctic Prehistory

About this book

This collection of eighteen papers honours the long and productive career of Dr. William E. Taylor, Jr. They deal with a range of topics in Canadian Arctic archaeology from the Mackenzie Delta to Labrador and from the earliest Palaeoeskimo to historical questions such as the origins of the Copper Inuit and the mysterious demise of the Sadlermiut.

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Yes, you can access Threads of Arctic Prehistory by David A. Morrison, Jean-Luc Pilon in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Archaeology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Avant-Propos
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Murielle Nagy: A Critical Review of the Pre-Dorset/Dorset Transition
  8. James W. Helmer: Resurrecting the Spirit(s) of Taylor's "Carlsberg Culture": Cultural Traditions and Cultural Horizons in Eastern Arctic Prehistory
  9. Carole Stimmell: Going to Pot: A Technological Overview of North American Ceramics
  10. Jean-Luc Pilon: The Inuvik Phase of the Arctic Small Tool Tradition
  11. Raymond J. Le Blanc: The Crane Site and the Lagoon Complex in the Western Canadian Arctic
  12. Patrick Plumet: Le Paléoesquimau dans la baie du Diana (Arctique québécois)
  13. Jean-Yves Pintal: A Groswater Site at Blanc-Sablon, Quebec
  14. M.A.P. Renouf: Two Transitional Sites at Port au Choix, Northwestern Newfoundland
  15. Bjarne Grþnnow: Qeqertasussuk — the Archaeology of a Frozen Saqqaq Site in Disko Bugt, West Greenland
  16. William W. Fitzhugh: Staffe Island 1 and the Northern Labrador Dorset-Thule Succession
  17. Charles D. Arnold: The Importance of Wood in the Early Thule Culture of the Western Canadian Arctic
  18. James M. Savelle and Allen P. McCartney: Thule Inuit Bowhead Whaling: A Biometrical Analysis
  19. David Morrison: An Archaeological Perspective on Neoeskimo Economies
  20. Bryan C. Gordon: Nadlok and the Origin of the Copper Inuit
  21. T. Max Friesen and Andrew Stewart: Protohistoric Settlement Patterns in the Interior District of Keewatin: Implications for Caribou Inuit Social Organization
  22. Susan Rowley: The Sadlermiut: Mysterious or Misunderstood?
  23. Norman Hallendy: Inuksuit: Semalithic Figures Constructed by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic
  24. Douglas R. Stenton and Robert W. Park: Formation Processes and Thule Archaeofaunas