Thule Eskimo culture
Subtitle: an anthropological retrospective
By: edited by Allen P. McCartney.
Contributors: McCartney, Allen P.; Canadian Archaeological Association.
Series: Paper - Archaeological Survey of Canada ; no. 88; Mercury series; Paper (Archaeological Survey of Canada) ;; no. 88.; Mercury series.
Publisher: National Museums of Canada
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
Subjects: Eskimos -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Eskimos -- Congresses.; Thule culture.
Description: Proceedings of a symposium devoted to Thule archaeology and related northern studies held at the 10th annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Ottawa during May, 1977. Papers address Thule chronology and cultural history, prehistoric-recent continuities, adaptation and climatological relationships, site interpretations, technology and art, human biology, and archaeological development. Focusses on last thousand years of Neo-Eskimo cultural evolution in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Proceedings of a symposium ... held at the 10th annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Ottawa during May 1977."
Summary also in French.