Models for Deriving Cultural Information from Stone Tools

Models for Deriving Cultural Information from Stone Tools
Author: Robson Bonnichsen
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820571

A model relating human cognition to the decisions made in tool manufacture is advanced as a substitute for those approaches to artifact classification which rely only on morphology. The model is related to experiments designed to link specific input conditions (in stone fracture) with particular output features (flake and core attributes) and is used to resolve processual questions concerning projectile points from four Palaeo-Indian localities.

DeBlicquy

DeBlicquy
Author: William Ewart Taylor
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820962

This study summarizes archaeological excavations in the DeBlicquy site, Bathurst Island, Northwest Territories and the resulting data gathered in July 1961 of a typical Thule culture winter village of the Canadian High Arctic. Stylistic analysis suggests that the site was occupied during middle Thule times and can probably be dated between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries A.D.

Lagoon Site (OjRI-3)

Lagoon Site (OjRI-3)
Author: Charles D. Arnold
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821012

Excavations at the Lagoon site (OjRl-3) on the southern coast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories have provided a database with which to formulate hypotheses concerning the Paleoeskimo culture history of the western periphery of the Canadian Arctic at ca. 500 B.C.

Dakah De’nin’s Village and the Dixthada Site

Dakah De’nin’s Village and the Dixthada Site
Author: Anne D. Shinkwin
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820865

Archaeological remains from two late prehistoric/early historic sites in east central Alaska ─ Dakah de’nin’s, an Ahtna Athapaskan village site and Dixthada, an Upper Tanana Athapaskan site ─ are presented and, with findings from a Kutchin Athapaskan site (Klo-kut) in the northern Yukon Territory, form the basis for an examination of whether or not the archaeological data warrants the definition of three distinct groups of Pacific Drainage Athapaskans during prehistoric and early historic time.

Archaeological Research at Calling Lake, Northern Alberta

Archaeological Research at Calling Lake, Northern Alberta
Author: Ruth Gruhn
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820938

An archaeological survey of Calling Lake, situated in the mixed wood forest zone approximately 225 km north of Edmonton, found an abundance of prehistoric material at sites on the east and southeast shore. Four prehistoric campsites were excavated in three field seasons from l966 to 1968. Comparison of projectile point styles with types dated elsewhere suggest that occupation of two of the sites began in the interval 3000 to 1000 B.C. with major occupation of the other two sites starting somewhat later. Cultural affiliations appear to be with the Taltheilei tradition and earlier, with the Plains area.

Archaeological Survey of Canada Annual Review 1980-1981 / Commission archéologique du Canada, rapports annuels 1980-1981

Archaeological Survey of Canada Annual Review 1980-1981 / Commission archéologique du Canada, rapports annuels 1980-1981
Author: Robert McGhee
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821098

This volume describes the activities of the Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, for the years 1980 and 1981. / Un rapport sur les activités du Commission archéologique du Canada, Musée national de l’Homme pendant les années 1980 à 1981.

Tipi Rings and Plains Prehistory

Tipi Rings and Plains Prehistory
Author: James T. Finnigan
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821020

This study compares a model of the relationship between tipi and the tipi ring, using primarily ethnographic information, to data from the British Block Cairn site in southeastern Alberta. It demonstrates that the tipi required a considerable investment of raw materials, and, as a result, the tipi ring is a product of a carefully reasoned decision on the correct anchoring strategy for a given environmental setting.