Crossroads to Greenland
Subtitle: 3000 years of prehistory in the eastern high Arctic
By: Peter Schledermann.
Contributors: Arctic Institute of North America.
Series: Komatik series -- no. 2
Publisher: Arctic Institute of North America, the University of Calgary; The Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Eskimos -- Northwest Territories -- Ellesmere Island -- Antiquities.; Indians of North America -- Nunavut -- Ellesmere Island -- Antiquities.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Nunavut -- Ellesmere Island -- Antiquities.; Ellesmere Island (Nunavut) -- Antiquities.
Description: This study of the archaeological evidence of the Thule and Dorset cultures in the High Arctic focusses on sites in the Bache Peninsula and Skraeling Island on the east coast of Ellesmere Island, and discusses the links of the culture to Greenland, as well as the significance of polynyas in its existence and distribution.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 357-364.