Prehistory of the Eastern ArcticAttempts to arrange in sequence descriptions of adaptive technologies, tactics and strategies devised by the prehistoric Eastern Arctic Eskimos over nearly a 4000 year period. |
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The Arctic Setting | 5 |
Pioneers of the Eastern Arctic | 37 |
The Earliest Paleoeskimo Cultures | 57 |
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animals antler appear arrow artifacts assemblage Baffin Island band bear bone burin-like tools burins carbon dates caribou carved centuries Charcoal closed coast cold complex culture dates Dorset sites drilled earlier earliest Early Dorset Eastern Arctic edge end blades evidence excavated Figure fish foreshaft Greenland handle harpoon heads High holes Hudson Hudson Strait human hunters hunting Igloolik increase Independence indicate Inuit ivory knife Labrador lance Late Dorset later less line hole material Maxwell midden migration needles northern occupation Parallel period pit houses Point polished population Pre-Dorset present probably range recovered region relatively remains reported rocks scrapers seal settlements shore side single skin Sliced slotted snow socket spalled stone suggest summer Tanfield Thule traits walrus western whale winter wooden