| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: The twin Arctics of North America / Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen -- Archaeology of the Western Arctic / Owen K. Mason -- Arctic mirages and landscape realities -- Late Pleistocene peopling of the interior and its Holocene history -- Settling the Alaska coastal rim : the North Pacific, the Aleutians and the origin of the Aleuts -- Paleo-Inuit migration and Athapaskan origins : the Arctic small tool and the Late Northern Archaic traditions -- Whaling and salmonizing in southwest Alaska : the last 3,000 years from the Aleutians to the Yukon Delta -- Bering Strait and North Alaska during the 1st millennium AD : a cosmos in transformation -- Emergence of Supiaaq identity : the North Pacific world in flux -- the Kachemak cult and the Koniag takeover -- Emergence of Inuit identity : Thule and late prehistoric archaeology of the Eastern Arctic / T. Max Friesen -- Inuit and their ancestors : setting the stage -- Pioneers of the Eastern Arctic : early Paleo-Inuit polar life perfected : early and middle Dorset -- Twilight of the Tuniit : late Dorset -- Arrival of the Inuit : the Thule period -- From the past to the present : development of recent Inuit societies -- Eastern Arctic archaeology in the 21st century -- Conclusions: The grand themes of Arctic prehistory / Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-277) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Arctic regions
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Arctic peoples -- Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arctic regions
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Social archaeology -- Arctic regions
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Prehistoric peoples
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Social archaeology
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| SUBJECT |
Arctic regions -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006957
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| Subject |
Arctic Regions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Friesen, T. Max, 1961- co-author.
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| LC no. |
2017021623 |
| ISBN |
9780932839565 |
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0932839568 |
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