Prehistoric maritime adaptations of the circumpolar zone

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

International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 1973 : Chicago, Ill.) (9th : (Author). Fitzhugh, William W., 1943- (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0202330753 (Aldine)
ISBN: 9780202330754 (Aldine)
ISBN: 9027976392
ISBN: 9789027976390
Physical Description: x, 405 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: The Hague : Mouton ; [1975]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.