Models for Deriving Cultural Information from Stone Tools
Models for Deriving Cultural Information from Stone Tools

Author: Robson Bonnichsen

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1772820571

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A model relating human cognition to the decisions made in tool manufacture is advanced as a substitute for those approaches to artifact classification which rely only on morphology. The model is related to experiments designed to link specific input conditions (in stone fracture) with particular output features (flake and core attributes) and is used to resolve processual questions concerning projectile points from four Palaeo-Indian localities.

Lagoon Site (OjRI-3)
Lagoon Site (OjRI-3)

Author: Charles D. Arnold

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1772821012

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Excavations at the Lagoon site (OjRl-3) on the southern coast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories have provided a database with which to formulate hypotheses concerning the Paleoeskimo culture history of the western periphery of the Canadian Arctic at ca. 500 B.C.

Dakah De’nin’s Village and the Dixthada Site
Dakah De’nin’s Village and the Dixthada Site

Author: Anne D. Shinkwin

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1772820865

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Archaeological remains from two late prehistoric/early historic sites in east central Alaska ─ Dakah de’nin’s, an Ahtna Athapaskan village site and Dixthada, an Upper Tanana Athapaskan site ─ are presented and, with findings from a Kutchin Athapaskan site (Klo-kut) in the northern Yukon Territory, form the basis for an examination of whether or not the archaeological data warrants the definition of three distinct groups of Pacific Drainage Athapaskans during prehistoric and early historic time.

Archaeological Research at Calling Lake, Northern Alberta
Archaeological Research at Calling Lake, Northern Alberta

Author: Ruth Gruhn

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1772820938

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An archaeological survey of Calling Lake, situated in the mixed wood forest zone approximately 225 km north of Edmonton, found an abundance of prehistoric material at sites on the east and southeast shore. Four prehistoric campsites were excavated in three field seasons from l966 to 1968. Comparison of projectile point styles with types dated elsewhere suggest that occupation of two of the sites began in the interval 3000 to 1000 B.C. with major occupation of the other two sites starting somewhat later. Cultural affiliations appear to be with the Taltheilei tradition and earlier, with the Plains area.

Archaeological Survey of Canada Annual Review 1980-1981 / Commission archéologique du Canada, rapports annuels 1980-1981
Archaeological Survey of Canada Annual Review 1980-1981 / Commission archéologique du Canada, rapports annuels 1980-1981

Author: Robert McGhee

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1772821098

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This volume describes the activities of the Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, for the years 1980 and 1981. / Un rapport sur les activités du Commission archéologique du Canada, Musée national de l’Homme pendant les années 1980 à 1981.

Tipi Rings and Plains Prehistory
Tipi Rings and Plains Prehistory

Author: James T. Finnigan

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1772821020

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This study compares a model of the relationship between tipi and the tipi ring, using primarily ethnographic information, to data from the British Block Cairn site in southeastern Alberta. It demonstrates that the tipi required a considerable investment of raw materials, and, as a result, the tipi ring is a product of a carefully reasoned decision on the correct anchoring strategy for a given environmental setting.

Washout
Washout

Author: Brian Willard David Yorga

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 177282092X

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Excavations at the Washout site (NjVi-2), Herschel Island, Yukon Territory were conducted for two field seasons in order to obtain data on early Thule subsistence, and to determine the affinity of the site to later Mackenzie Inuit occupations.

Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory
Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory

Author: Richard E. Morlan

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 177282089X

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The concept of taphonomy has been borrowed from paleontology and applied to the analysis of vertebrate fossils from the Old Crow region of the northern Yukon Territory. By means of this approach, archaeologically significant specimens have been isolated from the larger suite of materials which can be explained entirely in terms of natural processes. The analysis indicates that human occupation began in eastern Beringia more than 50,000 years ago and probably was continuous from that time onward, but primary archaeological deposits will be needed to clarify the historical and paleo-environmental significance of these finds.