Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Hutchings. Deirdre Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in Nunatsiavut has benefitted from past large-scale survey, testing, and excavation efforts that have served as the foundational bodies of work and knowledge upon which subsequent projects have been built. These wide-ranging projects opened up innumerable new avenues of inquiry and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugénie Gauvrit Roux.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Microblade technologies are a structuring component of the Late Pleistocene archaeology across the Bering Strait because of their wide chronological and geographical extension. To fully understand the technoeconomical strategies underlying the success of this innovative toolkit in periglacial environments,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Alix.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analyses of wood remains and artifact assemblages, while remaining few, are nevertheless developing in many areas of the American Arctic and the North Atlantic, providing a rich, diverse database for site or regional comparisons. At the same time, research on changing driftwood circulation and provenance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Management of, and research on, cultural heritage in the Alaskan Arctic has changed significantly. The changes were much needed and long overdue, but they have brought new challenges to all parties. Accelerating permafrost degradation and coastal erosion have made traditional management strategies no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deirdre Elliott. Corey Hutchings.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The heritage landscape in Nunatsiavut, and in the north more generally, is changing rapidly and in ways that demand changes in how we approach heritage management. Nunatsiavut holds 7,000 years of human history, and the importance of protecting and promoting this history is attested to in the Labrador...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aka Simonsen Bendtsen.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Western views (mindsets), practices, and methodologies have dominated all scientific enquiries, including archaeology, which is inherently colonizing because they assume that Western knowledge is superior to Indigenous knowledge (Smith 1999). Such approaches have led “scientists” to merely take knowledge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Kelvin. Lisa Rankin.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Settler colonialism is a disruption of Indigenous relationships. As a tool of settler colonialism, archaeology and collecting in particular have caused a disruption of relationships between Indigenous people, their land, their (in)tangible cultural heritage (Gray 2022), their Ancestors, and their pasts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen Mason.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological discourse can remain in thrall to classificatory and theoretical constructs. “Near Ipiutak” was framed by Larsen and Rainey in 1948 within the penumbra of the hundreds of Ipiutak ruins, <1 km distant, that resulted from an aceramic, non-whaling habitus and aestheticized mortuary practice....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Constance Thirouard. Claire Alix.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Iñupiat collections from archaeological sites located along the Kobuk River, excavated by J.L. Giddings, D. Anderson, and C. Hickey in the 1940s and 1960s, are held at the University of Alaska Museum of the North and the Brown University Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Their joint study requires...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Woollett. Edward Flowers.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of an ongoing fieldwork program in the Nain region of Nunatsiavut (Newfoundland and Labrador), the authors worked together in 2022 on a survey of Inuit archaeological sites on Dog Island and Sculpin Island. Already-known archaeological sites were revisited and a number of new sites were documented...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elie Pinta. Birgitta Wallace. Kevin Jenkins.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. L’Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the first European settlement in North America, is located in the northernmost part of modern-day Newfoundland, Canada. During the eleventh century, Norse Greenlanders established a frontier site for short periods of time, a “gateway to resources”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliette Taieb. Camille Mayeux. Claire Alix. Owen Mason.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To precisely contextualize and date climate variations and practices related to living spaces at the onset of the Little Ice Age, archaeoenvironmental analyses were conducted within a winter dwelling (Feature 21) at the Rising Whale site, Cape Espenberg. Two high-resolution datasets were employed: tree...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Héloïg Barbel Le Page.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses archaeological research that is intended to create a space for the inhabitants to reconnect with their material heritage on the land. The project took place in the Nain region (Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada) in 2021 and 2022. It contributed to the Nunatsiavut Government policies...