Greenland (Country) (Geographic Keyword)

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Ecohistories of Settlement of the Community of Svalbarð, Northeast Iceland (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Woollett. Paul Adderley. Céline Dupont-Hébert. Guðrun Alda Gísladóttir. Uggi Ævarsson.

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...

Expedition Ra: mit dem Sonnenboot in die Vergangenheit (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Experimental archaeology: replicas and reconstructions (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Séan Mcgrail.

Experiments on clothing – revealing more than expected (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrin Kania.

EXPLORING THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF ARCTIC MARITIME TRADITIONS THROUGH BAYESIAN RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelby Anderson. Thomas Brown. Justin Junge. Jonathan Duelks.

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...

From caribou to seal: The implications of changes in subsistence focus from Birnirk to Thule at Cape Espenberg (2017)

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

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...

Fur hat for northern climates (2006)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawn Russell. David Wescott.

Führer der archäologischen Freilichtmuseen in Europa (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessia Pelillo.

Gendered Differences in the Consumption and Discard of Food in Arctic Alaska (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christyann Darwent. Jeremy Foin.

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,...

Geophysical Investigations of Archaeological Sites in Alaska’s National Parks and Preserves: 2016 Field Season (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Urban. Linda Chisolm. Sturt Manning. Jeffrey Rasic. Andrew Tremayne.

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...

The Geophysical Search for the Aircraft (1986)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Bruce Bevan

Search for WWII bombers and fighters buried below the Greenland icecap; radar unfortunately explored only to a depth of about 60 m and aircraft were deeper. Survey for Patrick Epps and Richard Taylor (Greenland Expedition Society).

Grassroots modernization: pastoral economies, climate, and political change in Iceland's 18th though 20th centuries (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Hicks. Viðar Hreinsson. Árni Daniel Júliússon. Astrid Ogilvie. Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir.

The intersecting tensions among Iceland's hay cultivation, livestock productivity, and climate have a long history and a significant influence on both political discourse and local knowledge production. In the 18th century, Iceland was assessed by its Danish colonial government as being a marginally productive region in terms of its significant rural surpluses. Even in spite of producing some surplus, the country struggled with periodic famines until the late 19th century. These events and...

Guida ai Musei archeologici all'aperto in Europa (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessia Pelillo.

Guide to the archaeological open air museums in Europe (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessia Pelillo.

Hearth and home of the Paleo-Eskimos (2003)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

This article offers a methodological approach to study hearth features in general. The hearths of the Paleo-Eskimo tradition are often well preserved, which makes it possible to interpret which heating processes took place and their effects on the indoor climate of the dwelling. To obtain this type of information, recording of fire-cracked rocks within and in connection to hearths is of special importance. The Paleo-Eskimos made use of a versatile pyro-technology, adjustable to the most extreme...

Iita before the fall: Mitigation of a unique stratified site in the high Arctic of Greenland (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Darwent. Genevieve LeMoine. Hans Lange. Christyann Darwent.

Iita (Etah), which sits on the north shore of Foulke Fjord in northwestern Greenland, in many ways could serve as a poster child for climate-change-driven destruction of coastal sites. Sitting on an alluvial fan at the base of a steep-sloped kame deposit, the site has rich historic and late prehistoric occupations visible on its surface. But more uniquely for the high Arctic, there are also 1000 years of continuous human use locked in stratigraphically sequenced buried soils, starting with the...

Ildstedet som livscentrum. Aspekter af arktiske ildsteders funktion og ideologi (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

Indigenous Experimental Archaeology: A Community-Driven Remembering of Technique (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Magnani.

Archaeologists rely heavily on experimentation to understand the past. Today, we are not the only ones. Indigenous peoples and members of the public are consulting ethnographic and archaeological museum collections, by trial and error investigating techniques of object production. Many of these individuals work with craft specialists, and others are craftspeople themselves. They seek to learn, remember, and reclaim lost or fading skills in an attempt to connect with their pasts. The process...

Late Dorset and Thule Inuit Hunting Technologies and Archaeofaunas: Implications for Societal Differences (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lesley Howse.

This paper investigates human and animal interaction in two very different hunter-gatherer societies, Late Dorset and Thule Inuit, who once occupied the eastern Arctic. To access cultural differences I focus on how disparate hunting technologies impacted each society's archaeofaunas, and describe what appear to be culturally distinct trends in the faunal remains. In light of these findings, differences between Late Dorset and Thule Inuit hunting strategies, and other societal aspects including...

Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Alaska: Placing Archaeological Data on Projected Paleoecological Landscapes (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Fisher.

Understanding ecological responses to climate change are essential before inferences can be made regarding past culture change and human adaptation to the environment. This study focuses on modeling the paleoecology of central Alaska at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition using predictive modeling. Quadratic Discriminant Analysis is used to determine which modern climate variables, including minimum and maximum temperature and precipitation, as well as topographic data, best predict modern...

Life Beyond Circumpolar Cosmologies: New Themes in the Archaeology of Arctic Human-Animal Relations (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Jordan.

In Arctic Archaeology, human-animal relations have traditionally been studied in terms of ecology, optimality and adaptation; more recently, there has been growing interest in understanding how spiritual obligations affected treatment of circumpolar animals and their physical remains. Although these symbolic perspectives were initially useful, many tended to draw on ethnography, especially when using the concept of a single overarching ‘Circumpolar Cosmology; unfortunately, this can reduce...

Linking Transdisciplinary Data to Study the Long-Term Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic: The cyberNABO Project (2016)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker. Thomas McGovern. Emily Lethbridge. Gisli Palsson. Adam Brin.

This is a copy of the PowerPoint presentation from the SAA Annual Meeting symposium. The cyberNABO Project is designed to solidify a developing multidisciplinary community (centered on the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization, NABO) through the development of cyberinfrastructure (CI) to study the long-term human ecodynamics of North Atlantic, a region that is especially vulnerable to ongoing climate and environmental change. It builds build upon prior sustained field and laboratory research,...

Living with Reindeer in Arctic Siberia: the View from Arctic Yamal, Russia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Losey. Tatiana Nomokonova. Andrei Gusev. Natalia Fedorova.

Reindeer are an essential part of daily life and special events across a broad stretch of northern Eurasia, but their long term history with people has remained elusive. Ethnographers have characterized reindeer as living in ‘intermittent co-existence’ with humans, or as ‘semi-domesticates’, ‘pastoral herd animals’, and even ‘slaves’. Archaeology has struggled to characterize human-reindeer relationships, with even the geographical origins of modern domesticated deer remaining unclear. The Yamal...

Man does not go naked: Textilien und Handwerk aus afrikanischen und anderen Ländern; Festschrift für Renée Boser-Sarivaxévanis (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beate Engelbrecht. Bernhard Gardi.

Manufacturing reality: Inuit harvesting depictions and the domestication of human-animal relations (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Whitridge.

Schematic harvesting scenes incised on tools are a stock variety of both precontact and historic Inuit graphic art. They sometimes seem to depict historically specific events, which they effectively commemorate, and have real (sometimes precise) informational content that must have been important for the dissemination of technical harvesting knowledge among a hunter’s peers, and its inter-generational transfer. However, the harvesting setups – such as a boatload of hunters on the verge of...