Arctic (Geographic Keyword)
101-125 (291 Records)
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Early Arctic Small Tool Tradition (1974)
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Ecohistories of Settlement of the Community of Svalbarð, Northeast Iceland (2017)
The Archaeology of Settlement and Abandonment of Svalbarð research program has reconstructed chronologies of settlement movements on the Svalbarð estate (extreme north-east Iceland), from the 9th to the 19th century AD, as well as their environmental and socio-economic contexts. Settlement expansions occurred in the 10th to 13th and the 18th to 19th centuries AD, interspersed with waves of widespread abandonment after ca. 1300 and 1800. Analyses of amended soils and of soil and air temperature...
Ecology of Prehistoric Aleutian Village Sites (1953)
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Eskimo Trading Partnership in North Alaska (1970)
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An Examination of prehistoric copper technology and copper sources in Western Arctic and Subarctic North America (1981)
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Expanding the (Micro)Scope: Exploring the technological and provenance characteristics of Inuit pottery containing atypical, animal-deriving organic paste ingredients (2015)
The extensive research on pottery manufacture in past and contemporary societies suggests that the pallet of tempering materials potters select from includes a relatively limited range of options deriving from the geological landscape, plants (e.g. chaff) and animals (e.g. bone). This tendency is significant considering that almost any material or substance can be incorporated into a paste mixture; what is included in any specific instance is a matter of choice, shaped by the potter’s learned...
Expansion and extinction: the Collapse of the Mammoth Steppe fauna (2015)
More and more we become aware of the impact of climate change on our natural environment. The fossil record shows how extensive that impact can be. The woolly mammoth, the emperor of the animal kingdom during the Late Pleistocene, dominated the fauna of Eurasia for thousands of years, but the territory of the species shrunk dramatically; rather recently the woolly mammoth, together with for example the woolly rhinoceros and the giant deer, became extinct. Other species flourished due to the...
Exploring Human-Canid Interactions among the Dorset Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis (2015)
The scarcity of clearly identifiable dog bones and artifacts associated with dogsled traction has led many archaeologists to posit that the Dorset did not keep domestic dogs. While this statement has implications for the ability of the Dorset to cope with the variability of the arctic environment, it may also be an oversimplification of the problem. Canid remains do occur on Dorset sites, albeit in low numbers, but they are not identifiable to species based on skeletal morphology alone due to...
EXPLORING THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF ARCTIC MARITIME TRADITIONS THROUGH BAYESIAN RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS (2017)
To address the question of why arctic maritime traditions developed and spread in the North American Arctic during the mid- to late Holocene, we applied Bayesian analysis to a large radiocarbon database (n = 1202) for northwest Alaska and the Bering Strait region. We used Oxcal to create and analyze demographic patterns in summed probability distributions. We also used Bayesian calibration models to clarify the probable timings and durations of cultural phases and key transitions in the...
Exploring the Differences in Radiocarbon Ages of Seals and Caribou: A Case Study from Kotzebue Sound (2016)
J. Louis Giddings’ pioneering work in chronology building in Northwest Alaska laid the groundwork for this case study, where we explore differences between the radiocarbon ages of seals and caribou from Late Holocene archaeological sites in the Kotzebue Sound region. Samples were recovered from distinct cultural features like house floors and cache pits which date between 130 and 1600 BP, including two samples from a house excavated by Giddings in Kotzebue in 1941. Our comparisons of radiocarbon...
Federal Agency and Alaska Native Co-Management of the Sqilantnu Archaeological District, Alaska (2015)
One of the more unusual provisions of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act allowed the 12 newly formed Alaska Regional Native Corporations to select significant historic and cemetery sites as part of their settlement. Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI), selected three sites at the confluence of the Russian River with the Kenai River. The two federal agencies managing the area protested the claims. Among many complications was the fact that the area is one of the most popular sport...
Field Research Projects Sponsored By the Arctic Institute of North America (1955)
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Fifty Years of Archaeology in Canada (1932)
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Flake Tools in the American Arctic: Some Speculations (1964)
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Following in Giddings' Footsteps - Tree-ring signal, dendro-provenance, travel time and climate sensitivity of Alaska river driftwood, a key to tree-ring dating of archaeological wood in coastal Alaska (2016)
Giddings’ pioneering dendrochronology research in Alaska and his extensive and impressive sample collections were left mostly untouched since the 1960’s. For the last 10+ years, we have undertaken an effort to re-establish a library of dendrochronologies from live trees along the main driftwood-producing rivers in Alaska to re-initiate archaeological tree-ring research in Arctic coastal regions. We are now examining Giddings’ original samples, most of which were never measured. We believe these...
Formalized Toggle Harpoon Head Typology and Evolution of Ancient Arctic Cultures (1968)
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From caribou to seal: The implications of changes in subsistence focus from Birnirk to Thule at Cape Espenberg (2017)
The widespread Birnirk culture is considered the source of the Thule and modern Inuit peoples across the arctic, based largely on legacy data from the 1930s to 1960s. Nonetheless, the archaeology of the Birnirk culture is understudied, with a 1970s archaeofaunal study near Barrow framing the culture as ringed seal specialists who depleted local seal populations and were forced to migrate northward. This proposition is called into question by our excavation of two houses in 2016 at Cape Espenberg...
Gallagher Flint Station, an Early Man On the North Slope, Arctic Alaska and Its Role in Relation To the Bering Land Bridge (1975)
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Gallagher Flint Station, an Early Man Site, North Slope, Arctic Alaska (1972)
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Gendered Differences in the Consumption and Discard of Food in Arctic Alaska (2017)
Cape Espenberg, Alaska, provides a unique opportunity to directly compare two Thule-period (ca. AD 1400-1450) houses built at virtually the same time on the same beach ridge only one meter apart. The tunnels of these houses are identically built; however, their interior construction, use of space, and artifact types and manufacturing debris strongly suggest that one house was a traditional domestic structure and the other was a men’s house. Ringed seal, the dietary staple across the Arctic,...
The Genetic Prehistory of the New World Arctic (2015)
The New World Arctic, the last region of the Americas to be populated by humans, has a relatively well-researched archaeology. However, there is no consensus on how the different Arctic traditions were genetically related to one another. We present genome-wide sequence data from ancient and present-day humans from Greenland, Arctic Canada, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Siberia, contributing new perspectives to the debate of cultural versus genetic replacement in the New World Arctic. We show...
Genetical and Anthropological Characteristics of Arctic Populations (1966)
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Geoarchaeology of the Tukuto Lake Croxton Site: Geophysical and Soils Investigations in the Arctic Foothills, Northern Alaska (1982)
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Geophysical Investigations of Archaeological Sites in Alaska’s National Parks and Preserves: 2016 Field Season (2017)
Alaska’s National Parks and Preserves have seen increased use of geophysical methods for cultural resource management and archeological research in the past several years. Here we describe the results of geophysical surveys conducted at several of Alaska’s National Parks and Preserves in the summer of 2016 as part of an ongoing effort that has span several field seasons and has now included eight parks and preserves. Examples from 2016 include research at Gates of the Arctic National Park and...