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.

Passion for the Past

Passion for the Past
Author: James Vallière Wright
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821578

A Passion for the Past celebrates the late archaeologist James F. Pendergast. The book includes twenty-two essays on subjects ranging from archaeological ethnicity to Native perspectives on archaeology, and features several texts on the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a subject dear to Pendergast’s heart.

Prehistoric Cultural Change at Kitselas Canyon

Prehistoric Cultural Change at Kitselas Canyon
Author: Gary Coupland
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821314

This study investigates the prehistoric transition from egalitarian to ranked social structure at Kitselas Canyon, Skeena River, British Columbia. It contributes to archaeological theory by developing and testing a model of the evolution of cultural complexity. A culture historical contribution is also made in the development of a prehistoric local sequence for Kitselas Canyon.

Thule Village at Brooman Point, High Arctic Canada

Thule Village at Brooman Point, High Arctic Canada
Author: Robert McGhee
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821195

Ten of the twenty Thule winter houses at the Brooman Point site, located on the southern tip of a peninsula extending from the eastern coast of Bathurst Island, were excavated in 1979 and 1980, and the description and interpretation of these remains forms the basis of this report.

History of the Native People of Canada

History of the Native People of Canada
Author: James Vallière Wright
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 641
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821454

Volume two examines such developments as the replacement of the earlier spearthrower by the bow and arrow, the introduction of pottery from the south, the importance of communal hunting of bison on the Plains, and the appearance of ranked societies on the West Coast.

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.

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.