Greenland (Country) (Geographic Keyword)

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Measuring performance under sail (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Palmer.

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...

A metate maker of Baja California (1949)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H Aschman.

MID-LATE HOLOCENE POPULATION TRENDS AND MARITIME RESOURCE INTENSIFICATION IN WESTERN ALASKA (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Tremayne. William Brown.

Population growth has long been argued to play a critical role in promoting cultural evolution, operating both through adaptation to population pressure and increasing social network size and transmission frequency. We present a model of mid-late Holocene Alaskan population size based on a temporal frequency analysis of 902 site occupation episodes dating between 6000 and 1000 radiocarbon years BP, with two objectives: (1) identify factors that influenced Alaskan population dynamics over this...

Molecular Markers in Keratins from Hair and Baleen for Species Identification of Archaeological Artefacts (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Solazzo. William Fitzhugh. Susan Kaplan. Charles Potter. Jolon Dyer.

In this paper, we present a methodology to identify organic remains from Arctic and sub-Arctic origin. Peptide mass fingerprinting (based on the characterization of specific peptides from proteins) is a rapid and efficient method for species identification, which requires little material and provide results on processed and degraded material. Recent studies of ancient marine mammals’ remains has used collagen peptides in bones and skins for species identification. Here we demonstrate the...

"Most beautiful favorite reindeer" – Life histories of reindeer offered at Sámi offering sites in northern Fennoscandia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna-Kaisa Salmi.

Animal offerings made at various sacred sites were an integral part of the ethnic religion of the indigenous Sámi people of northern parts of present-day Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia from ca. 800 AD onwards. The offering tradition was interwoven with subsistence patterns and human-animal relationships, as in the Sámi worldview, offerings were a means to communicate with gods and guardian spirits of animals to negotiate things such as success in hunting or reindeer husbandry. In this...

The most extreme Situation. Contextual experiment with an Arctic hearth performed at Lejre Experimental Center, Denmark, during work on Ph.D. dissertation "the fireplace as centre of life. Aspects of function and ideology of Arctic Hearths" (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulla Odgaard.

Najwczesniejsze statki wschodnioatlantyckie i zachodniosródziemnomorskie: ze studiów nad rekonstrukcja. [The earliest east-Atlantic and West-Mediterranean ships: studies in reconstruction] (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Z Krzak.

Norse Coastal Farms Field Report of a Survey in the Southwest “Vatnahverfi Peninsula” Summer 2009 (field report) (2009)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christian Koch Madsen. Konrad Smiarowski.

Beginning in 2005 as a research project under the IPY, the Vatnahverfi Project initiated a series of years of renewed field work in the Vatnahverfi region, South Greenland (Arneborg et al. 2009, Møller&Madsen 2005, 2006, Møller et al. 2007). Continued under a new and broader research agenda – Resources, Resiliency, and Cultural Identity in Norse Greenland ca.985 – 1450 – though still coordinated from the Danish National Museum by Jette Arneborg, the field work in Vatnahverfi has ...

On the Margins of the Marginal? Fringe Settlement and Land Use in Norse Greenland (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Madsen. Christian Koch Madsen. Ian Simpson. Michael Nielsen. Jette Arneborg.

Just before AD 1000 pioneer Norse hunter-farmers settled in Greenland and established what would be the extreme western outpost of Scandinavia and Europe for the next 450 years. The unexplained disappearance of this marginal medieval colony around AD 1450 has always puzzled researchers and has been proposed as a prime example of maladaptation to climatic and environmental deterioration at the onset of the ˈLittle Ice Ageˈ (LIA). As part of the Island Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic Project...

The origin of Indian corn and its relatives (1939)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul C Mangelsdorf. Richard G Reeves.

Pre-Columbian ballgame handstones: rejoinder to Clune (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S F de Borhegyi.

Pre-Columbian negative painted pottery; some notes and observations (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Cheetham. Ann Woods.

Prehistoric Thule Whaling Societies in the Canadian Arctic; Ritual, Symbolism, and Ideology (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Savelle.

Prehistoric Thule Inuit in the Canadian Arctic were pre-eminent whalers, focussing on the bowhead whale, the largest prey species hunted by any prehistoric or historic hunter-gatherer society. The ethnographic literature provides a rich source of information dealing not only with the importance of bowheads in the diet of early historic bowhead-hunting Inuit societies, but also how social structure, ritual, symbolism and ideology were all centered on complex Thule-bowhead relationships. This...

Preliminary Assessment Report of the Archaeofauna from KNK 203 (E 74), a Norse Farm in the Eastern Settlement, Greenland (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Konrad Smiarowski. Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir. Thomas McGovern.

The archaeofauna is still under study, and this report presents only a partial overview of the collection. However, a number of observations can be made at this stage: • The collection has been subject to severe attrition from freeze-thaw cycling and repeated flooding and drying. Only the most dense bone elements survive, and even teeth are badly preserved in some contexts. • While the conditions of preservation will limit the comparative value of the E74 archaeofauna and will probably make a...

Preliminary Insights into Prehistoric Toolstone Preference of Two Igneous Materials in the Tanana River Drainage, Interior Alaska (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooks Lawler.

This project examines prehistoric human mobility and raw material preference for tool manufacture in the Tanana River Drainage, Interior Alaska. A geographic approach is used to investigate the distribution of prehistoric obsidian and rhyolitic artifacts in relation to the sources of these materials. The objective of the investigation is to reveal spatial patterning in the distributions of artifacts made of these two materials, relative to each other and relative to the cost of obtaining these...

Preliminary Report of a Medieval Norse Archaeofauna from Brattahlið North Farm (KNK 2629), Qassiarsuk, Greenland (2006)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas McGovern. Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir.

Introduction : This is a preliminary report of the animal bone collected in 2005-06 by international teams led by Ragnar Edvardsson for the Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) and NABO. The bone collections come from stratified contexts in the midden area south of the Brattahlið North Farm (E29N under the old Bruun system: now KNK 2629) whose structures were excavated in 1932. Degerbøl (1934) has provided a pioneering and still valuable zooarchaeological report of the early excavations,...

Preliminary Report on the 2012 Archaeofauna from E47 Gardar in the Eastern Settlement, Greenland (2013)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Konrad Smiarowski.

The excavation at E47 Gardar took place during the 2012 collaborative fieldwork carried out in a cooperation between the Greenland National Museum and Archives, CUNY, U Stirling, National Museum of Denmark, and the Archaeological Institute Iceland coordinated by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization research cooperative (NABO www.nabohome.org). In response to initial reports on substantial drainage ditch disturbance by Hans Kapel (Kapel 2005) and the ditch profile cleaning and column...

Preliminary results of new excavations on Jens Munk Island, Foxe Basin, Arctic Canada (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Kotar. James M. Savelle.

Paleo-Inuit groups settled and inhabited the Canadian Arctic from 2800 B.C. until the arrival of Thule Inuit groups approximately 1200 A.D. Previous archaeological research indicated that Paleo-Inuit populations were particularly large and stable in a "core area" comprising Foxe Basin, Nunavut, and adjacent regions. The diverse and supposedly stable resources of this area allowed people to continuously inhabit the region for almost 3000 years, including a supposedly smooth transition from the...

Queering the Inuit Past: Archaeology as LGBTQ Allyship (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Walley.

The real-world utility of academic archaeology is frequently called into question. I address this perception by demonstrating that archaeology has unique potential in the sphere of LGBTQ activism. Because archaeology deals in constructing past narratives, it has the discursive power to naturalize or denaturalize existing social structures and identities. While archaeology has a long history of reinforcing normative social categories, archaeologists have recently begun to apply queer theory,...

The Ra Expeditions (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

Reconstruccions del passat. Un recorregut per l’història d’Europa i Amèrica (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joan Santacana Mestre.

Reconstructing the ancestor of corn (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul C Mangelsdorf.

Repositioning Habitus as Cultural Capital in Sami Museum Collections (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Magnani.

Ethnographic museum collections are frequently presented as regional culture histories, portraying a timeless native past. In the Sámi regions of Finland, institutionalized courses and individuals seek to manufacture of museum objects anew, and exhibit this present revival in concert with the past. The recreated objects are not only shown in their present living contexts but removed from museums and used at local cultural events. These new forms of representation emphasize living use and...

Resources, Mobility, and Cultural Identity in Norse Greenland, Vatnahverfi Project – Report from The Field Work 2008 (field report) (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jette Arneborg. Martin Hebsgaard. Niels Lynnerup. Christian Koch Madsen. Caroline Polke Paulsen. Konrad Śmiarowski.

The summer of 2008 was the fourth season with archaeological field work in the Vatnahverfi region in the Norse Eastern Settlement. The main purpose of the project is to investigate and discuss cultural, social and economic strategies of the Norse Greenland settlement from landnam in the late 980´ties to depopulation in the later part of the 15th Century with Vatnahverfi as case study area. Knowledge of the culture landscape are prerequisite for the project and high resolution and GPS surveys...

Responding to Burning Libraries (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas McGovern.

Rising sea levels, increasing storminess, melting glaciers, rising soil temperatures, and increased wild fires are all increasingly affecting archaeological sites worldwide. Accelerated destruction of sites with organic preservation poses a dual threat to global and local cultural heritage and to archaeological evidence that is becoming recognized as key global change data. As archaeologists increasingly participate in local, national, and international efforts to promote genuine long term...