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Title

Dynamics of northern societies : proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th-14th, 2004 / edited by Jette Arneborg & Bjarne Grønnow.

Author

SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology (2004 : Copenhagen, Denmark)

Publication

Copenhagen : National Museum of Denmark, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Arneborg, Jette.
• Greenland Research Centre (Nationalmuseet : Denmark)
• Grønnow, Bjarne.
• Nationalmuseet (Denmark)
• North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation.

Description

415 p. : ill., maps; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Publications from the National Museum. Studies in archaeology & history ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Publications from the National Museum. Studies in archaeology & history ; v. 10.

Subject

• Arctic regions > Antiquities > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Arctic regions > Congresses

Note

• "SILA--The Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

We have seen these warm weathers before indigenous observations, archaeology, and the modeling of Arctic climate change / Igor Krupnik -- The northern societies in the world / Klavs Randsborg -- The Chaine Operatoire applied to Arctic archaeology / Mikkel Sorensen -- Use wear analysis, the missing link of Nunavik's Chaine Operatoire : potential and forthcoming studies / Marie-Michelle Dionne and Jacques Chabot -- What were the choices? -- how the concept of Chaine Operatoire and experimental archaeology can be used to evaluate the quality of raw material / Lotte Eigeland -- Paleo-Eskimo migrations into Greenland : the Canadian connection / Bjarne Gronnow and Mikkel Sorensen -- Different areas, different cultures? / Jens Fog Jensen -- Colonizing labrador : the actions and reactions of the Paleo-Eskimo / Lisa Rankin and Lori Squires -- Reassessing the old whaling locality at Cape Krusenstern, Alaska / Christyann M. Darwent -- Ipiutak remains mysterious : a focal place still out of focus / Owen K. Mason -- Re-investigating a middle phase dorset dwelling at Phillip's garden, Port au Choix, Newfoundland / M. A. P. Renouf -- Harpoon head seriation and the dorset phases : about the Tayara sliced and the other types / Pierre M. Desrosiers, Daniel Gendron and Noura Rahmani -- Qajartalik : the place where the stone speaks for faces that have lost their voices / Amelie Langlais and Louis Gagnon -- Cordage and wood from the Avayalik dorset site in Northern Labrador / William W. Fitzhugh, Richard Jordan, James Adovasio and Dosia Laeyendecker -- Architectural variability in the Mackenzie Delta region : the role of social factors / T. Max Friesen -- Using 3D computer models of inuit architecture as visualization tools in archaeological interpretation : two case studies from the Canadian Arctic / Peter C. Dawson and Richard M. Levy -- Interregional contacts across Northern Fennoscandia 6000-4000 B.C. / Charlotte Damm -- Aasiviit as focal places in historical Greenland / Hans Christian Gullov -- Gathering sites as focal places in prehistoric Greenland / Martin Appelt -- Uianerit-migrations from Southeast to Southwest Greenland in the 19[superscript th] century / Einar Lund Jensen -- Demographic fluctuations and settlement patterns of the East Greelandic population -- as gathered from early administrative and ethnographic sources / Joelle Robert-Lamblin -- Culture contact, coping, and commercialization in Arctic Norway A.D.1200-1600 / Jorn Henriksen, Colin Amundsen, Elin Myrvoll and Bjornar Olsen -- Borg in Lofoten -- from early Iron Age "cooking-mates" via Viking Age chieftains to medieval farmers / Brit Solli -- Trade in Viking Age Britain : identity and the production and distribution of bone and antler combs / Steven P. Ashby -- Viking burial in the north of England / Angela Z. Redmond -- Changes in sheep size and shape in the Northern Isles : a comparison between the Norse Period and the Iron Age and Pictish periods / Julia Elise Cussans -- Shieling activity during the Norse Period in the Faroe islands : a palynological approach / Douglas M. Borthwick, Kevin J. Edwards and Gordon Cook -- Central areas in Iceland / Orri Vesteinsson -- Settlement history, land holdings and landscape change, Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland / Guorun Sveinbjarnardottir, Kerry-Anne Mairs, Mike J. Church and Andrew J. Dugmore -- An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? : environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Porsmork, South Iceland / Andrew J. Dugmore, Mike J. Church, Kerry-Anne Mairs, Tom McGovern, Antony J. Newton and Guorun Sveinbjarnardottir -- Can there be a correspondence between Icelandic palynological and settlement evidence? / Egill Erlendsson, Kevin J. Edwards, Ian Lawson and Orri Vesteinsson -- Rettir in the landscape. A study on the context of focal points / Oscar Aldred -- Degrees of success : evaluating the environmental impact of long term settlement in South Iceland / Kerry-Anne Mairs, Mike J. Church, Andrew J. Dugmore and Gudrun Sveinbjarnardottir -- Human impact on freshwater environments in Norse and early medieval Myvatnssveit, Iceland / Ian T. Lawson, Frederick J. Gathorne-Hardy, Mike J. Church, Arni Einarsson, Kevin J. Edwards, Sophia Perdikaris, Tom McGovern, Colin Amundsen and Guorun Sveinbjarnardottir -- Cleaning up the farm : a later medieval Archaeofauna from Gjogur, a fishing farm of NW Iceland / Yekaterina Krivogorskaya, Sophia Perdikaris and Tom McGovern -- Outlaws of Surtshellir cave : the underground economy of Viking Age Iceland / Gudmundur Olafsson, Tom McGovern and Kevin P. Smith -- The nature of focal places / Joel Berglund.

ISBN

• 8776020525
• 9788776020521

LCCN

9788776020521

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library