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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Questioning the Past in North America
- Hunter-Gatherer Theory in North American Archaeology
- Bone Lickers, Grave Diggers, and Other Unsavory Characters: Archaeologists, Archaeological Cultures, and the Disconnect from Native Peoples
- Historical Archaeology and Native Agency across the Spanish Borderlands
- Some Commonalities Linking North America and Mesoamerica
- The North American <i>Oikoumene</i>
- People, Plants, and Culinary Traditions
- Early Paleoindians, from Colonization to Folsom
- Pleistocene Settlement in the East
- Archaeological Histories and Cultural Processes
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Adapting to a Frozen Coastal Environment
- Rethinking Eastern Subarctic History
- Archaeology of the North Pacific
- The West
- Foundations for the Far West: Paleoindian Cultures on the Western Fringe of North America
- Archaeology of the Northwest Coast
- The Winter Village Pattern on the Plateau of Northwestern North America
- Great Basin Foraging Strategies
- The Evolution of Social Organization, Settlement Patterns, and Population Densities in Prehistoric Owens Valley
- Mound Building by California Hunter-Gatherers
- Diversity, Exchange, and Complexity in the California Bight
- Archaeologies of Colonial Reduction and Cultural Production in Native Northern California
- Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Seaboard
- Overview of the St. Lawrence Archaic Through Woodland
- New England Algonquians: Navigating “Backwaters” and Typological Boundaries
- What Will Be Has Always Been: The Past and Present of Northern Iroquoians
- Regional Ritual Organization in the Northern Great Lakes, AD 1200–1600
- Villagers and Farmers of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley, 11th to 17th Centuries AD: The Fort Ancient and Monongahela Traditions
- Native History in the Chesapeake: The Powhatan Chiefdom and Beyond
- Plains and Upper Midwest
- Lifeways Through Time in the Upper Mississippi River Valley and Northeastern Plains
- The Archaeological Imprint of Oral Traditions on the Landscape of Northern Plains Hunter-Gatherers
- Situating (Proto) History on the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains
- The Origins and Development of Farming Villages in the Northern Great Plains
- Planting the Plains: The Development and Extent of Plains Village Agriculturalists in the Southern and Central Plains
- Women on the Edge: Looking at Protohistoric Plains-Pueblo Interaction from a Feminist Perspective
- Cahokia Interaction and Ethnogenesis in the Northern Midcontinent
- The Effigy Mound to Oneota Revolution in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
- Post-Contact Cultural Dynamics in the Upper Great Lakes Region
- Midsouth and Southeast
- Mound-Building Societies of the Southern Midwest and Southeast
- Reenvisioning Eastern Woodlands Archaic Origins
- Poverty Point
- Origins of the Hopewell Phenomenon
- Monumental Landscape and Community in the Southern Lower Mississippi Valley During the Late Woodland and Mississippi Periods
- Making Mississippian at Cahokia
- Mississippian in the Deep South: Common Themes in Varied Histories
- Living with War: The Impact of Chronic Violence in the Mississippian-Period Central Illinois River Valley
- Moundville in the Mississippian World
- Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico
- The Archaeology of the Greater Southwest: Migration, Inequality, and Religious Transformations
- Diversity in First-millennium AD Southwestern Farming Communities
- Hohokam Society and Water Management
- Terraced Lives: <i>Cerros de Trincheras</i> in the Northwest/Southwest
- Chaco’s Hinterlands
- The Mesa Verde Region
- Warfare and Conflict in the Late Pre-Columbian Pueblo World
- The Pueblo Village in an Age of Reformation (AD 1300–1600)
- Casas Grandes Phenomenon
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In the Arctic, people experience some of the most profound seasonal changes anywhere on earth: the temperature and amount of daylight differ tremendously between summer and winter, the nature and extent of the usable landscape varies enormously with the annual formation and dissolution of the sea ice, and the composition and abundance of the fauna changes dramatically due to most species' annual migrations. Moreover, because the sea ice environment melts every summer, all direct traces of human use of that landscape are lost annually. Therefore, to a greater extent than in most archaeological situations, our understanding of the history of human use of the sea ice part of the coastal environment must be inferential.
Keywords: coastal environment, Arctic, seasonal changes, frozen environment, fauna changes, landscape, adaptation
Robert W. Park
Robert W. Park is Professor of Anthropology, University of Waterloo.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Questioning the Past in North America
- Hunter-Gatherer Theory in North American Archaeology
- Bone Lickers, Grave Diggers, and Other Unsavory Characters: Archaeologists, Archaeological Cultures, and the Disconnect from Native Peoples
- Historical Archaeology and Native Agency across the Spanish Borderlands
- Some Commonalities Linking North America and Mesoamerica
- The North American <i>Oikoumene</i>
- People, Plants, and Culinary Traditions
- Early Paleoindians, from Colonization to Folsom
- Pleistocene Settlement in the East
- Archaeological Histories and Cultural Processes
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Adapting to a Frozen Coastal Environment
- Rethinking Eastern Subarctic History
- Archaeology of the North Pacific
- The West
- Foundations for the Far West: Paleoindian Cultures on the Western Fringe of North America
- Archaeology of the Northwest Coast
- The Winter Village Pattern on the Plateau of Northwestern North America
- Great Basin Foraging Strategies
- The Evolution of Social Organization, Settlement Patterns, and Population Densities in Prehistoric Owens Valley
- Mound Building by California Hunter-Gatherers
- Diversity, Exchange, and Complexity in the California Bight
- Archaeologies of Colonial Reduction and Cultural Production in Native Northern California
- Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Seaboard
- Overview of the St. Lawrence Archaic Through Woodland
- New England Algonquians: Navigating “Backwaters” and Typological Boundaries
- What Will Be Has Always Been: The Past and Present of Northern Iroquoians
- Regional Ritual Organization in the Northern Great Lakes, AD 1200–1600
- Villagers and Farmers of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley, 11th to 17th Centuries AD: The Fort Ancient and Monongahela Traditions
- Native History in the Chesapeake: The Powhatan Chiefdom and Beyond
- Plains and Upper Midwest
- Lifeways Through Time in the Upper Mississippi River Valley and Northeastern Plains
- The Archaeological Imprint of Oral Traditions on the Landscape of Northern Plains Hunter-Gatherers
- Situating (Proto) History on the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains
- The Origins and Development of Farming Villages in the Northern Great Plains
- Planting the Plains: The Development and Extent of Plains Village Agriculturalists in the Southern and Central Plains
- Women on the Edge: Looking at Protohistoric Plains-Pueblo Interaction from a Feminist Perspective
- Cahokia Interaction and Ethnogenesis in the Northern Midcontinent
- The Effigy Mound to Oneota Revolution in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
- Post-Contact Cultural Dynamics in the Upper Great Lakes Region
- Midsouth and Southeast
- Mound-Building Societies of the Southern Midwest and Southeast
- Reenvisioning Eastern Woodlands Archaic Origins
- Poverty Point
- Origins of the Hopewell Phenomenon
- Monumental Landscape and Community in the Southern Lower Mississippi Valley During the Late Woodland and Mississippi Periods
- Making Mississippian at Cahokia
- Mississippian in the Deep South: Common Themes in Varied Histories
- Living with War: The Impact of Chronic Violence in the Mississippian-Period Central Illinois River Valley
- Moundville in the Mississippian World
- Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico
- The Archaeology of the Greater Southwest: Migration, Inequality, and Religious Transformations
- Diversity in First-millennium AD Southwestern Farming Communities
- Hohokam Society and Water Management
- Terraced Lives: <i>Cerros de Trincheras</i> in the Northwest/Southwest
- Chaco’s Hinterlands
- The Mesa Verde Region
- Warfare and Conflict in the Late Pre-Columbian Pueblo World
- The Pueblo Village in an Age of Reformation (AD 1300–1600)
- Casas Grandes Phenomenon
- Index
