The foragers of Point Hope : the biology and archaeology of humans on the edge of the Alaskan Arctic
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Auerbach, Benjamin M.
Cowgill, Libby W. Hilton, Charles E. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xix, 311 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;
68 |
| Schlagworte: |
Ethnologie
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Alaska (State) Arktis Nordamerika |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- List of contributors
- Foreword / Ian Tattersall and David Hurst Thomas
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction : humans on the edge of the Alaskan Arctic / Charles E. Hilton, Benjamin M. Auerbach, and Libby W. Cowgill
- Part I. Regional Archaeological and Biological Context. 2. The archaeology of north Alaska : Point Hope in context / Anne M. Jensen ; 3. The Ipiutak cult of shamans and its warrior protectors : an archaeological context / Owen K. Mason ; 4. Ancestor-descendant affinities between the Ipiutak and Tigara at Point Hope, Alaska, in the context of North American Arctic cranial variation / Blaine Maley
- Part II. Biological Variation Among the Foragers of Point Hope. 5. Contrasting the Ipiutak and Tigara : evidence from incisor microwear texture analysis / Kristin L. Krueger ; 6. The diets of the Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope, Alaska) : evidence from occlusal molar microwear texture analysis / Sireen El Zaatari ; 7. Postcranial pathological lesions in precontact Ipiutak and Tigara skeletal remains of Point Hope, Alaska / Charles E. Hilton, Marsha D. Ogilvie, Megan Latchaw Czarniecki, and Sarah Gossett ; 8. Bone strength and subsistence activities at Point Hope / Laura L. Shackelford ; 9. Postcranial growth and development of immature skeletons from Point Hope, Alaska / Libby W. Cowgill
- Part III. Contexts, Conclusions and Commentaries. 10. Morphologies from the edge : perspectives on biological variation among the late Holocene inhabitants of the northwestern North American Arctic / Benjamin M. Auerbach ; 11. The Ipiutak spirit-scape : an archaeological phenomenon / William W. Fitzhugh ; 12. Point Hope in certain contexts : a comment / Don E. Dumond
- Index.
