Archaeological Survey Between Cape Parry and Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1963
Archaeological Survey Between Cape Parry and Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1963

Author: William Ewart Taylor

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1772820008

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1963 field work reveals artifacts and structures of Pre-Dorset, Dorset, Thule and recent Eskimo occupations at several localities in the area surveyed. The author refers to earlier field work, comments on regional variations in cultures represented in the report, documents a western extension of Dorset culture and offers hypotheses on the origins of the historic Caribou Eskimo and Copper Eskimo.

Grant Lake Site, Keewatin District, Northwest Territories
Grant Lake Site, Keewatin District, Northwest Territories

Author: James Vallière Wright

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 177282044X

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The Grant Lake site, located on the Dubawnt River in west-central Keewatin District, consists of a number of horizontally discrete living floors that pertain to the Agate Basin complex of the Palaeo-Indian period. It is proposed that the environment during the occupation between 6000 and 7000 B.C. was similar to present conditions.

Iglulualumiut Prehistory
Iglulualumiut Prehistory

Author: David A. Morrison

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1772821349

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This study examines material from four archaeological sites revealing the existence of a previously unrecognized late prehistoric/early historic Inuit society living in Franklin Bay, in the western Canadian Arctic. These people, the Iglulualumiut, had a culture closely resembling that of neighbouring Mackenzie Inuit, of whom they can be considered an extension. They appear to have been of local Thule culture origin, and the last remnants of a once widespread Inuit occupation along the southern coast of Amundsen Gulf.

Excavation of Water-Saturated Archaeological Sites (Wet Sites) on the Northwest Coast of North America
Excavation of Water-Saturated Archaeological Sites (Wet Sites) on the Northwest Coast of North America

Author: Dale R. Croes

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1772820474

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A compilation of thirteen papers dealing with the techniques of excavation, kinds of artifacts recovered and methods of preservation of perishable materials from water-saturated sites of the Northwest Coast, originally presented at the 29th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference in 1974.

Thule Eskimo Prehistory along Northwestern Hudson Bay
Thule Eskimo Prehistory along Northwestern Hudson Bay

Author: Allen Papin McCartney

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1772820687

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Ten Thule house ruins were excavated during 1968 and 1969 at Silumiut, Kamarvik, and Igluligardjuk, major winter settlements along Roes Welcome Sound and northwestern Hudson Bay. Radiocarbon dating places the occupation of these sites at the end of the twelveth century A.D. This work expands Mathiassen’s original investigation of Thule culture southward from Repulse Bay.

Paleoecological Model for Northwest Coast Prehistory
Paleoecological Model for Northwest Coast Prehistory

Author: Knut R. Fladmark

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1772820415

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The evolution of the Northwest Coast cultural pattern from two different archaeological traditions, one in the north and one to the south, is discussed in terms of environmental and subsistence factors.

Origins and Development of Early Northwest Coast Culture to about 3000 B.C.
Origins and Development of Early Northwest Coast Culture to about 3000 B.C.

Author: Charles E. Borden

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1772820423

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Archaeological data is presented to show that populations of two significantly contrasting cultural traditions and subsistence patterns, one spreading south from the north, and the other expanding northward from the south, appear to have been involved in the post-glacial settlement of the Northwest Coast of North America.

Belly River
Belly River

Author: J. Michael Quigg

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1974-01-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1772820237

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This report summarizes the archaeological salvage investigations undertaken along the Belly River in southwestern Alberta. In the course of the project, numerous archaeological sites were located eroding into the river, and some of the more important localities were excavated.

Prehistory of Lake Athabasca
Prehistory of Lake Athabasca

Author: James Vallière Wright

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1772820296

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The position of Lake Athabasca relative to the Plains, Boreal Forest, and Arctic physiographic zones, which have changed through time in response to climatic fluctuations, has resulted in cultures adapted to these three zones occupying areas of the lake during certain periods. During the later prehistory, the western half of the lake was exploited by a Plains-derived, bison hunting culture whereas the eastern half of the lake was exploited by a Boreal Forest-derived, caribou hunting culture.