Research Catalog

Title

Prehistoric maritime adaptions of the circumpolar zone / editor William Fitzhugh.

Author

International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, (9th : 1973: Chicago, Ill.).

Publication

The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine, [1975]

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Additional Authors

Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-

Description

x, 405 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Papers examining the anthropology and archaeology of early cultures in Scandinavia, the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and the northwest Atlantic, with comparative studies of various aspects.

Series Statement

World anthropology

Uniform Title

World anthropology

Subject

• Alaska
• Arctic peoples > Congresses
• Arctic regions > Antiquities > Congresses
• Labrador
• Maritime anthropology > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Arctic regions > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Agriculture, inland hunting, and sea hunting in the western and northern region of the Baltic, 6000-2000 B.C. / Stig Welinder -- The rock carvings at Nämforsen, Ångermanland, Sweden, as a problem of maritime adaptation and circumpolar interrelations / Mats P. Malmer -- Prehistoric coastal settlement on the upper Bothnian coast of northern Sweden / H. Christiansson and Noel D. Broadbent -- Use of slate in the circumpolar region / Kristen R. Møllenhus -- When and why did occupational specialization begin at the Scandinavian north coast? / Povl Simonsen -- Maritime adaptations in northern Norway's prehistory / Gutorm Gjessing -- Circumpolar adaptation zones east-west and cross-economy contacts north-south : an outsider's query, especially on Ust'-Poluj / Carl-Axel Moberg -- Problems of the origin of the ancient sea hunters' cultures in the Northern Pacific / R.S. Vasilievsky -- The Okhotsk culture, a maritime culture of the southern Okhotsk Sea region / Haruo Ohyi -- Stability and adaptability in the evolution of hunting tools in ancient Eskimo cultures / S. Arutiunov and D. Sergeev -- Coastal adaptation and cultural change in Alaskan Eskimo prehistory / Don E. Dumond -- Aleut adaptation and evolution / William S. Laughlin and Jean S. Aigner -- Technological continuity and change within a persistent maritime adaptation : Kodiak Island, Alaska / Donald W. Clark -- Marine transgressions and cultural adaptation : preliminary tests of an environmental model / G.F. Grabert and C.E. Larsen -- Maritime adaptation on the northwestern Atlantic Coast / James A. Tuck -- Demography and adaptations of eighteenth-century Eskimo groups in northern Labrador and Ungava / J. Garth Taylor -- Maritime adaptations in cold archipelagoes : an analysis of environment and culture in the Aleutian and other island chains / A.P. McCartney -- A comparative approach to northern maritime adaptations / William Fitzhugh.

ISBN

0202330753 (Aldine) :

LCCN

^^^76371509^//r932

OCLC

1994456

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library