The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic

1001 Pages·2016·35.46 MB·English

by  T Max Friesen

The Oxford Handbook of
T H E
P R E H I S T O R I C
A R C T I C

The Oxford Handbook of
THE
PREHISTORIC
ARCTIC
Edited by
T. MAX FRIESEN
and
OWEN K. MASON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Friesen, T. Max, 1961 - editor. | Mason, Owen K., editor.
Title: he Oxford handbook of the prehistoric Arctic / edited by T. Max
Friesen and Owen K. Mason.
Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Series: he Oxford
handbooks series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identiiers: LCCN 2015046535 (print) | LCCN 2016001325 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780199766956 (hardback) | ISBN 9780199983209 (online content) |
ISBN 9780190602826 (updf)
Subjects: LCSH: Arctic regions—Antiquities. | Excavations
(Archaeology)—Arctic regions. | Arctic peoples—Antiquities. | Arctic
regions—History. | Arctic peoples—History.
Classiication: LCC G606 .O94 2016 (print) | LCC G606 (ebook) | DDC
911/.3—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046535
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Contents
List of Contributors  ix
Introduction: Archaeology of the North American Arctic  1
T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason
PART I CROSS- CUTTING THEMES
1. Molecular Genetic Evidence from Contemporary Populations
for the Origins of Native North Americans  27
Rohina C. Rubicz and Michael H. Crawford
2. Ancient DNA and Stable Isotopes: Windows on Arctic Prehistory  51
Justin Tackney, Joan Coltrain, Jennifer Raff,
and Dennis O’Rourke
3. Zooarchaeology and the Reconstruction of Ancient
Human- Animal Relationships in the Arctic  81
Matthew W. Betts
4. A Critical Resource: Wood Use and Technology in the North
American Arctic  109
Claire Alix
5. Archaeological Evidence for Transport, Trade, and Exchange
in the North American Arctic  131
Jeffrey T. Rasic
6. Paleoeskimo Lithic Technology  153
Pierre M. Desrosiers and Mikkel Sørensen
7. Arctic Archaeometallurgy  175
H. Kory Cooper
8. Archaeology and Native Northerners: he Rise of Community-
Based Practice across the North American Arctic  197
Natasha Lyons
vi Contents
PART II WESTERN ARCTIC
9. First Traces: Late Pleistocene Human Settlement of the Arctic  223
Ted Goebel and Ben A. Potter

10. he Origins and Development of Arctic Maritime Adaptations
in the Subarctic and Arctic Paciic  253

Ben Fitzhugh
11. First Maritime Cultures of the Aleutians  279

Richard Davis, Richard Knecht, and Jason Rogers
12. Maritime Economies of the Central Gulf of Alaska
ater 4000 b.p.  303
Amy Steffian, Patrick Saltonstall,
and Linda Finn Yarborough

13. Archaeology of the Eastern Aleut Region  323
Herbert D. G. Maschner

14. he Denbigh Flint Complex of Northern Alaska  349
Andrew H. Tremayne and Jeffrey T. Rasic
15. he Enigmatic Choris and Old Whaling Cultures
of the Western Arctic  371
Christyann M. Darwent and John Darwent
16. Norton Hunters and Fisherfolk  395
Don E. Dumond

17. he Old Bering Sea Florescence about Bering Strait  417
Owen K. Mason

18. From the Norton Culture to the Ipiutak Cult
in Northwest Alaska  443
Owen K. Mason
19. Ancient Eskimo Cultures of Chukotka  469
Mikhail M. Bronshtein, Kirill A. Dneprovsky,
and Arkady B. Savinetsky
20. hule Origins in the Old Bering Sea Culture:
he Interrelationship of Punuk and Birnirk Cultures  489

Owen K. Mason
Contents vii
21. Archaeology of the Late Western hule/I ñupiat in North Alaska
(a.d. 1300– 1750)  513
Anne M. Jensen
22. Holocene Prehistory of the Northwestern Subarctic  537
Ben A. Potter
23. he Precontact History of Subarctic Northwest Canada  563
Glen MacKay and Thomas D. Andrews
24. Development of Mackenzie Inuit Culture  585
Charles Arnold
25. he Aleutian Tradition: he Last 4,000 Years  607
Debra Corbett and Michael Yarborough
26. Contact and Postcontact Iñupiat Ethnohistory  631
Anne M. Jensen and Glenn W. Sheehan
PART III EASTERN ARCTIC
27. Reconstructing Middle and Late Holocene Paleoclimates
of the Eastern Arctic and Greenland  653
Sarah A. Finkelstein
28. Pan- Arctic Population Movements: he Early Paleo-I nuit
and hule Inuit Migrations  673
T. Max Friesen
29. Pre- Dorset Culture  693
S. Brooke Milne and Robert W. Park
30. Independence I and Saqqaq: he First Greenlanders  713
Bjarne Grønnow
31. Greenlandic Dorset  737
Jens Fog Jensen
32. he “Dorset Problem” Revisited: he Transitional
and Early and Middle Dorset Periods in the Eastern Arctic  761
Karen Ryan
33. Late Dorset  783
Martin Appelt, Eric Damkjar, and T. Max Friesen
viii Contents
34. he Dorset- hule Transition  807
Robert W. Park

35. Classic hule [Classic Precontact Inuit]  827
Peter Whitridge
36. Labrador Inuit: hriving on the Periphery of the Inuit World  851
Susan A. Kaplan and James M. Woollett
37. Development of Polar Inughuit Culture in the Smith Sound Region  873
Genevieve M. LeMoine and Christyann M. Darwent
38. Inuit- European Interactions in Greenland  897
Hans Christian Gulløv
39. he hule-I nuit Succession in the Central Arctic  915
Peter Dawson
40. Archaeology of the Inuit of Southern Labrador
and the Quebec Lower North Shore  937
William W. Fitzhugh
Index  961
List of Contributors
Claire Alix, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne — CNRS, UMR 8096
homas D. Andrews, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories
Martin Appelt, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
Charles Arnold, Arctic Institute of North America, Calgary, Alberta
Matthew W. Betts, Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec
Mikhail M. Bronshtein, State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
Joan Coltrain, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
H. Kory Cooper, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Debra Corbett, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska
Michael H. Crawford, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Eric Damkjar, Alberta Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Edmonton
Christyann M. Darwent, University of California, Davis
John Darwent, University of California, Davis
Richard Davis, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Peter Dawson, University of Calgary, Alberta
Pierre M. Desrosiers, Avataq Cultural Institute, Montreal, Quebec
Kirill A. Dneprovsky, State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
Don E. Dumond, University of Oregon, Eugene
Sarah A. Finkelstein, University of Toronto
Ben Fitzhugh, University of Washington, Seattle
William W. Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
T. Max Friesen, University of Toronto
Ted Goebel, Texas A&M University, College Station