Arctic (Geographic Keyword)

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Two Controversies in Chronology: Geoarchaeological Re-Interpretations at St. Lawrence Island and Cape Krusenstern Beach Ridges (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen K. Mason. Stefanie Ludwig.

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United States Arctic Program for the International Geophysical Year (1956)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Kaplan.

"Untangling the timbers": New Perspectives on Birnirk Architecture in Northwestern Alaska (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Alix. Owen Mason. Lauren Norman.

Birnirk culture is well-known for driftwood structures that were repeatedly re-assembled to form low mounds. The structures were "hopeless tangle[s] of logs" to pioneering 1930s archaeologists whose reports lack details on construction techniques. Birnirk houses diverge from the preceding Old Bering Sea and later Thule single room houses with lengthy entrance tunnels. Our 2016 fieldwork "followed the wood," employing enhanced photography within two exceptionally preserved houses at Cape...

Upper Kobuk River Drainage: Report Phase I of a Cultural Resources Survey and Inventory in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael L. Kunz.

Using GIS to evaluate models of late Holocene settlement patterns in Northwest Alaska (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Junge. Shelby Anderson.

Changing Arctic coastal settlement patterns are often linked to late Holocene environmental change. In northwest Alaska, archaeologists hypothesize that environmental variability was a major factor in both growing coastal population density between 1000 and 500 ya, and subsequent decreasing population density between 500 ya and the contact era. After 500 ya people dispersed to smaller settlements in coastal areas, and perhaps, upriver. This hypothesized pattern is based on older research that...

Using Multidimensional Analysis for the Presentation of Zooarchaeological Data (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Ryan.

Management and dissemination of data has long been a challenge for archaeologists, and this challenge has increased in recent years with demands from various funding agencies for data management plans. Additionally, querying the complex datasets generated often results in iterative rounds of SQL code creation as each answer raises further questions. Online analytical processing (OLAP), a tool for multi-dimensional analysis used by many private companies for reporting, management, and...

Variation in Basic Economic Structure of the Arctic Woodland Culture (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford G. Hickey.

Vulnerabilities and Failure of Building Resilience in Norse Greenland (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jette Arneborg.

The Norse colonies in SW Greenland were established in the late 900’s and depopulated in the middle of the second half of the 1400’s. The traditional Nordic Temperate Zone pastoralism clearly was at its limits in Sub Arctic SW Greenland. Still, adaptation to the new environment has been described as successful, and the depopulation in the late Middle Ages is considered a consequence of the specialization the successful adaptation leaving the Norse Greenlandic society less resilient and more...

Walakpa as Case Study: Rescuing Heritage and Data from a Vanishing Site (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Jensen.

Walakpa is an iconic Arctic site with spectacular preservation, due to frozen conditions. Although many believe it to have been fully excavated, Stanford was only able to reach a third of the way to sterile soil due to permafrost, so earlier occupations of the site remain unstudied. Long considered stable, Walakpa began eroding rapidly in 2013. A single recent storm removed over 30 meters of cultural stratigraphy along a 100+ meter front. Need for rapid response prompted a large volunteer...

The Walakpa Site, Alaska: Its Place in the Birnirk and Thule Cultures (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis J. Stanford.

Weasels, seals, bears: Late Dorset miniature carvings as indicators of individual hunter/prey relationships (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve LeMoine.

Miniature carvings recovered from Paleo-Inuit Dorset culture sites (2800-700 BP) across the Canadian Arctic and northwestern Greenland offer tantalizing glimpses of human-animal relations of this prehistoric group. Recently scholars such as Matt Betts and Mari Hardenberg have begun a productive line of inquiry drawing on representational ecology to contextualize and enrich understanding of the social nature of these relationships and the symbolic role of the carvings of polar bears in particular...

Western Arctic and Sub-Arctic Chronologies. in New World Chronologies, Edited By R.E. Taylor and Clement W. Meighan. Academic Press, New York (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas D. Anderson.

Western Elements in the Early Thule Culture of the Eastern High Arctic (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Schledermann. Karen McCullough.

What To Do about Avayalik Island 1: A Remote Central Place in the Paleoeskimo World (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Kaplan.

In 1978 archaeologists partially excavated a frozen Middle Dorset Paleoeskimo midden on Avayalik Island, a far outer island at the tip of Labrador, Canada’s uninhabited northern coast. They recovered hundreds of organic artifacts unlike any found in Labrador’s other Middle Dorset sites, which contain only lithic tools. Faunal remains suggested a North Atlantic quite different from that of the present day. In 2016 Kaplan returned to Avayalik and documented the ongoing destruction of the site....

Winter Survey and Excavation in Arctic Alaska (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael L. Kunz.

Winter Survey and Excavation in Arctic Alaska, Appendix 1-4 (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael L. Kunz.

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