Long term adaptations among Arctic hunter-gatherers : a case study from southern Baffin Island / George Sabo III.

Title
  1. Long term adaptations among Arctic hunter-gatherers : a case study from southern Baffin Island / George Sabo III.
Published by
  1. New York : Garland Pub., 1991.
Author
  1. Sabo, George.

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Description
  1. xvi, 403 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. This study examines the role of social mechanisms in long-term environmental adaptations among Arctic hunter-gatherers, using archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data from the North Bay (Lake Harbour) region of southern Baffin Island, to test hypotheses concerning Inuit responses to the effects of climatic changes on distribution, abundance and predictability of major subsistence resources, through the Thule culture and Inuit occupations from AD 1100 to the present century.
Series statement
  1. The Evolution of North American Indians
Uniform title
  1. The Evolution of North American Indians.
Subject
  1. Eskimos > Nunavut > Baffin Island > Economic conditions
  2. Eskimos > Nunavut > Baffin Island > Social life and customs
  3. Human ecology > Nunavut > Baffin Island
  4. Excavations (Archaeology) > Nunavut > Baffin Island
  5. Baffin Island (Nunavut) > Antiquities
Contents
  1. Chapter 1. Long-term adaptations of hunter and gatherers -- Origin and development of the Thule culture -- Investigations in the Lake Harbour Region -- 2. Ecosystems and adaptations: a perspective and research design -- Basic concepts and assumptions -- Archeological considerations -- 3. The environmental setting -- Physical environment -- Major biotic zones -- 4. Cultural setting -- Annual cycle -- Adaptive strategies -- Social organization -- 5. Ecosystem model -- Resource procurement systems -- Settlement patterns and demographic arrangements -- 6. Paleoenvironmental change and archeological implications -- Prehistoric climates and culture change -- Past climatic stages -- Ecological effects of climatic change -- 7. Archeological analysis of cultural components -- Archeological methods -- Classical Thule phase -- Historic phase -- 8. Thule adaptations and cultural development on southern Baffin Island -- Adaptation to long-term environmental change -- Adaptation to short-term environmental change -- Appendix A: Description of archeological excavations -- Appendix B: Description of artifacts.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.).
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-313).
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