The Oxford handbook of the prehistoric Arctic / edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason.

Other author Friesen, T. Max, 1961-
Other author Mason, Owen K.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Descriptionxi, 988 pages ; 26 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Handbooks Online 2016 Archaeology
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Archaeology
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SeriesThe Oxford handbooks series
Contents Archaeology of the North American Arctic: introduction / T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason -- Part I. Cross-cutting themes -- Molecular genetic evidence for the origins of North American populations / Rohina C. Rubicz and Michael H. Crawford -- Ancient DNA and stable isotopes: windows on Arctic prehistory / Justin Tackney, Joan Coltrain, Jennifer Raff, and Dennis O'Rourke -- Zooarchaeology and the reconstruction of ancient human-animal relationships in the Arctic / Matthew W. Betts -- A critical resource: wood use and technology in the North American Arctic / Claire Alix -- Archaeological evidence for transport, trade and exchange in the North American Arctic / Jeffrey T. Rasic -- Palaeoeskimo lithic technology / Pierre M. Desrosiers and Mikkel Sørensen -- Arctic archaeometallurgy / H. Kory Cooper -- Archaeology and native northerners: the rise of community-based practice across the North American Arctic / Natasha Lyons -- Part II. Western Arctic -- First traces: late Pleistocene human settlement of the Arctic / Ted Goebel and Ben A. Potter -- The origins and development of Arctic maritime adaptations in the Pacific Subarctic / Ben Fitzhugh -- First maritime cultures of the Aleutians / Richard Davis, Richard Knecht, and Jason Rogers -- Maritime economies of the central Gulf of Alaska after 4,000 BP / Amy Steffian, Patrick Saltonstall, and Linda Finn Yarborough -- Archaeology of the Eastern Aleut region / Herbert D. G. Maschner -- The Denbigh flint complex of Northern Alaska / Andrew H. Tremayne and Jeffrey T. Rasic -- The enigmatic choris and old whaling cultures of the Western Arctic / Christyann M. Darwent and John Darwent -- Norton hunters and fisherfolk of southern Alaska / Don E. Dumond -- The old bering sea florescence about bering strait / Owen K. Mason -- From the norton culture to the ipiutak cult in northwest alaska / Owen K. Mason -- Ancient Eskimo cultures of Chukotka / Mikhail M. Bronshtein, Kirill A. Dneprovsky, and Arkady B. Savinetsky -- Thule origins in the old Bering Sea culture: the inter-relationship of Punuk and Birnirk cultures / Owen K. Mason -- Archaeology of the late western Thule/Inupiat in North Alaska (AD 1300-1750) / Anne M. Jensen -- Holocene prehistory of the northwestern subarctic / Ben A. Potter -- The precontact history of subarctic northwest Canada / Glen MacKay and Thomas D. Andrews -- Development of MacKenzie Inuit culture / Charles Arnold -- The Aleutian tradition: the last 4000 years / Debra Corbett and Michael Yarborough -- Contact and post-contact Iñupiat ethnohistory / Anne M. Jensen and Glenn W. Sheehan -- Part III. Eastern Arctic -- Reconstructing middle and late Holocene paleoclimates of the eastern arctic and Greenland / Sarah A. Finkelstein -- Pan-arctic population movements: the early paleo-Inuit and Thule Inuit migrations / T. Max Friesen -- Pre-Dorset culture / S. Brooke Milne and Robert W. Park -- Independence I and Saqqaq: the first Greenlanders / Bjarne Grønnow -- Greenlandic Dorset / Jens Fog Jensen -- The Dorset problem revisited: the transitional and early and Middle Dorset Periods in the eastern Arctic / Karen Ryan -- Late Dorset / Martin Appelt, Eric Damkjar, and T. Max Friesen -- The Dorset-Thule transition / Robert W. Park -- Classic Thule [classic precontact Inuit] / Peter Whitridge -- Labrador Inuit: thriving on the periphery of the Inuit world / Susan A. Kaplan and James M. Woollett -- Development of polar Inughuit culture in the Smith Sound region / Genevieve M. LeMoine and Christyann M. Darwent -- Inuit-European interactions in Greenland / Hans Christian Gulløv -- Thule-Inuit succession in the Central Arctic / Peter Dawson -- Archaeology of the Inuit of southern Labrador and the Quebec lower north shore / William W. Fitzhugh.
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