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.

Examination of Prehistoric Copper Technology and Copper Sources in Western Arctic and Subarctic North America

Examination of Prehistoric Copper Technology and Copper Sources in Western Arctic and Subarctic North America
Author: U. M. Franklin
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820954

The results of investigations of copper technology and sources of copper of the prehistoric inhabitants of the North American Arctic and Subarctic are described. A total of 342 artifacts were examined from Arctic Small Tool tradition, Thule, Historic Eskimo, Chipewyan, Kutchin, and Ahtna contexts. Part 1 contains an analysis of copper composition, primarily by the neutron activation method, and a description of prehistoric manufacturing techniques. Part II is an annotated bibliography of metal occurrences in the north.

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.

Glenbrook Village Site

Glenbrook Village Site
Author: James F. Pendergast
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820946

A detailed description of the specimens recovered from the Glenbrook prehistoric village site in Glengarry County, Ontario attributed to the St. Lawrence Iroquois. The presence of certain Huron ceramics and smoking pipes suggest liaison between the villagers and the Huron on the Benson or Parsons site time levels. This connection supports the conclusion derived from the analysis of the artifacts which places the occupation of the Glenbrook village very late in the prehistoric period.

Walker Site — The Hamilton Site: A Late Historic Neutral Town

Walker Site — The Hamilton Site: A Late Historic Neutral Town
Author: Milton J. Wright
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820970

These two master’s theses represent the first detailed reports on historic Neutral village sites. An analysis of the Walker site, a large ten acre, nonpalisaded Neutral Iroquois town occupied circa 1640 A.D. The site provides a comparative baseline for the study of the Neutral Iroquois and demonstrates trends and relationships extant during the late part of the Neutral sequence. Analysis indicates Neutral Iroquois occupancy of the six acre Hamilton site from circa 1638 to 1650 A.D., but the presence of a high percentage of foreign pottery raises a number of interpretational hypothesis to account for it.

Cultural Responses to Altithermal (Atlantic) Climate Along the Eastern Margins of the North American Grasslands: 5500 to 3000 B.C.

Cultural Responses to Altithermal (Atlantic) Climate Along the Eastern Margins of the North American Grasslands: 5500 to 3000 B.C.
Author: Anthony P. Buchner
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772820911

Palaeo-ecological data from central North America are synthesized in order to demonstrate the effects of the Altithermal or Atlantic Climatic Episode (circa 5500 to 3000 B.C). on vegetation. Against this environmental backdrop, Early Middle Prehistoric archaeological complexes are considered with particular attention to site setting, exploitation strategies and site distribution with comparisons to both earlier (Plano) and later (late Middle Prehistoric) complexes in the same region.

Washout

Washout
Author: Brian Willard David Yorga
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282092X

Excavations at the Washout site (NjVi-2), Herschel Island, Yukon Territory were conducted for two field seasons in order to obtain data on early Thule subsistence, and to determine the affinity of the site to later Mackenzie Inuit occupations.