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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 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. 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 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America 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
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