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Zusatztext The Handbook deserves to become an essential reference for twenty-first-century archaeologists; it belongs in the personal library of any serious scholar of the North American Arctic past and in the libraries of most universities. Informationen zum Autor T. Max Friesen is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.Owen K. Mason is a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Klappentext Despite its extreme climate, the North American Arctic holds a complex archaeological record of global significance. In this volume, leading researchers provide comprehensive coverage of the region's cultural history, addressing issues as diverse as climate change impacts on human societies, European colonial expansion, and hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization. Zusammenfassung The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy history relating to Inuit, Iñupiat, Inuvialuit, Yup'ik and Aleut peoples and their ancestors. The artifacts, dwellings, and food remains of these ancient peoples are remarkably well-preserved due to cold temperatures and permafrost, allowing archaeologists to reconstruct their lifeways with great accuracy. Furthermore, the combination of modern Elders' traditional knowledge with the region's high resolution ethnographic record allows past peoples' lives to be reconstructed to a level simply not possible elsewhere. Combined, these factors yield an archaeological record of global significance--the Arctic provides ideal case studies relating to issues as diverse as the impacts of climate change on human societies, the complex process of interaction between indigenous peoples and Europeans, and the dynamic relationships between environment, economy, social organization, and ideology in hunter-gatherer societies. In the The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic, each arctic cultural tradition is described in detail, with up-to-date coverage of recent interpretations of all aspects of their lifeways. Additional chapters cover broad themes applicable to the full range of arctic cultures, such as trade, stone tool technology, ancient DNA research, and the relationship between archaeology and modern arctic communities. The resulting volume, written by the region's leading researchers, contains by far the most comprehensive coverage of arctic archaeology ever assembled. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic Edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason Archaeology of the North American Arctic: Introduction...T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason Cross-Cutting Themes Molecular Genetic Evidence for the Origins of North American Populations...Rohina C. Rubicz and Michael H. Crawford Ancient DNA and Stable Isotopes: Windows on Arctic Prehistory...Justin Tackney, Joan Coltrain, Jennifer Raff, and Dennis O'Rourke Zooarchaeology and the Reconstruction of Ancient Human-Animal Relationships in the Arctic...Matthew W. Betts A Critical Resource: Wood Use and Technology in the North American Arctic...Claire Alix Archaeological Evidence for Transport, Trade and Exchange in the North American Arctic...Jeffrey T. Rasic Palaeoeskimo Lithic Technology...Pierre M. Desrosiers and Mikkel Sørensen Arctic Archaeometallurgy...H. Kory Cooper Archaeology and Native Northerners: The Rise of Community-Based Practice Across the North American Arctic...Natasha Lyons Western Arctic First Traces: Late Pleistocene Human Settlement of the Arctic...Ted Goebel and Ben A. Potter The Origins and Development of Arctic Maritime Adaptations in the Pacific Subarctic...Ben Fitzhugh First Maritime Cultures of the Aleutians...Richard Davis, Richard Knecht, and Jason Rogers Mar...
