Diverging Harvesting Strategies of Atlantic Walruses: An Intercontinental Comparison

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this paper, we compare historic Atlantic walrus commercial and subsistence exploitation in Svalbard (Norway) and Foxe Basin (Arctic Canada), respectively. Data are drawn from osteometric analysis of zooarchaeological surface remains at harvest locales (examined both in situ and in museum collections). In studying harvest strategies of the same species in fundamentally different socio-economic contexts, we hope to better understand the diversity and sustainability of long-term Arctic human-animal relations. This ongoing work is carried out as part of “4-Oceans” (NTNU, Trinity College Dublin and NOVA U. of Lisbon; funded by the European Research Council), with data collected through “Timeless Arctic” (U. of Kiel; Vollkswagen Foundation), the Osteometric and Biomolecular Analysis of Archaeological Marine Mammals Project (NTNU), the University of Bergen, the Scientific Expedition to Egedøya Svalbard (SEES), "SeaChanges" (both through University of Groningen and the University of Copenhagen) and “Limited Choices, Lasting Traditions” (both through University of Groningen; Dutch Research Council).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36566.0