The Crane Site and the Palaeoeskimo Period in the Western Canadian Arctic

The Crane Site and the Palaeoeskimo Period in the Western Canadian Arctic

Author: Raymond Joseph Le Blanc

Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780660140193

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The similarities shared by the Crane site, Cape Bathurst Peninsula, NWT with Lagoon Site on Banks Island, as well as comparable material on Melville Island, provide the basis for the definition of a regional cultural complex that existed during the period of change from the Pre-Dorset to the Dorset phases of the Palaeoeskimo continuum.


Archaeological Reconnaissance at Great Bear Lake

Archaeological Reconnaissance at Great Bear Lake

Author: Donald Woodforde Clark

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1772821292

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This volume summarizes two seasons of archaeological survey and a brief reconnaissance at Great Bear Lake in 1972, 1976 and 1979. The survey was restricted primarily to the northern and northwestern shores of the lake, a region that was occupied at the time of historic contact by the Hare group of Athapaskans (Dene). Approximately 140 lithic (prehistoric) sites were located and are described together with the same number of historic camps, structures and caribou fences.


Migod

Migod

Author: Bryan H. C. Gordon

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1772820539

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The discrete band/discrete herd association is used to explore 8,000 years of barrenland prehistory at the Migod site, west-central Keewatin District, Northwest Territories The association appears applicable in the four traditions represented ─ Agate Basin, Shield Archaic, Pre-Dorset and Taltheilei.


Batza Tena, Trail to Obsidian

Batza Tena, Trail to Obsidian

Author: Donald Woodforde Clark

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 177282139X

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This volume reports on the findings from the extensive archaeological surveys and excavations in the Batza Téna area, Alaska’s most important source of obsidian.


History of the Native People of Canada

History of the Native People of Canada

Author: James Vallière Wright

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1772821454

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Volume two examines such developments as the replacement of the earlier spearthrower by the bow and arrow, the introduction of pottery from the south, the importance of communal hunting of bison on the Plains, and the appearance of ranked societies on the West Coast.