Research Catalog

Title

Threads of Arctic prehistory : papers in honour of William E. Taylor, Jr. / edited by David Morrison and Jean-Luc Pilon.

Publication

Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Morrison, David A.
• Pilon, J.-L. (Jean-Luc)
• Taylor, William E., Jr., 1927-1994

Description

xi, 422 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Foreward by George Macdonald. Essays by eighteen contributors. Includes an abstract in French.

Series Statement

• Mercury series, 0316-1854
• Paper / Archaeological Survey of Canada, 0317-2244 ; no. 149

Uniform Title

• Mercury series
• Paper (Archaeological Survey of Canada) no. 149.

Alternative Title

Papers in honour of William E. Taylor, Jr.

Subject

• Arctic regions > Antiquities
• Arctic regions > Antiquities > Congresses
• Canada, Northern > Antiquities > Congresses
• Dorset culture > Arctic regions
• Eskimos > Arctic regions > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Arctic regions > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Arctic regions
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Canada, Northern > Congresses
• Inuit > Arctic regions > Antiquities
• Taylor, William E., Jr., 1927-1994

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Based on papers presented at a session of the Canadian Archaeological Association held on May 7-8, 1992 in London, Ontario.
• Additional preface and one article in French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A critical review of the pre-Dorset/Dorset transition / Murielle Nagy -- Resurrecting the spirit(s) of Taylor's "Carlsberg Culture": cultural traditions and cultural horizons in eastern Arctic prehistory / James W. Helmer -- Going to pot: a technological overview of North American ceramics / Carole Stimmell -- The Inuvik phase of the Arctic small tool tradition / Jean-Luc Pilon -- The Crane Site and the Lagoon Complex in the western Canadian Arctic / Raymond J. Le Blanc -- Le Paléoesquimau dans la baie du Diana (Arctique québécois) / Patrick Plumet -- A groswater Site at Blanc-Sablon, Quebec / Jean-Yves Pintal -- Two transitional sites at Port au Choix, Northwestern Newfoundland / M.A.P. Renouf -- Qeqertasussuk -- the archaeology of a frozen Saqqaq site in Disko Bugt, West Greenland / Bjarne Gronnow.
• (Cont'd.) Staffe Island 1 and the northern Labrador Dorset-Thule succession / William W. Fitzhugh -- The importance of wood in the early Thule culture of the western Canadian Arctic / Charles D. Arnold -- Thule Inuit Bowhead whaling: a biometrical analysis / James M. Savelle, Allen P. McCartney -- An archaeological perspective on Neoeskimo economies / Davaid Morrison -- Nadlok and the origin of the Copper Inuit / Bryan C. Gordon -- Protohistoric settlement patterns in the Interior District of Keewatin: implications for Caribou Inuit social organization / T. Max Friesen, Andrew Stewart -- The Sadlermiut: mysterious or misunderstood? / Susam Rowley -- Inuksuit: Semalithic figures constructed by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic / Norman Hallendy -- Formation processes and Thule archaeofaunas / Douglas R. Stenton, Robert W. Park.

ISBN

066050751X

LCCN

cn^94980291^

OCLC

31292789

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library