Title The Foragers of Point Hope : the Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages) Series Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology ; v. 68 Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology. Contents Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword by Ian Tattersall and David Hurst Thomas; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Humans on the edge of the Alaskan Arctic; Part I Regional archaeological and biological context; 2 The archaeology of north Alaska: Point Hope in context; 3 The Ipiutak cult of shamans and its warrior protectors: An archaeological context; 4 Ancestor-descendant affinities between the Ipiutak and Tigara at Point Hope, Alaska, in the context of North American Arctic cranial variation Part II Biological variation among the foragers of Point Hope5 Contrasting the Ipiutak and Tigara: Evidence from incisor microwear texture analysis; 6 The diets of the Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope, Alaska): Evidence from occlusal molar microwear texture analysis; 7 Postcranial pathological lesions in precontact Ipiutak and Tigara skeletal remains of Point Hope, Alaska; 8 Bone strength and subsistence activities at Point Hope; 9 Postcranial growth and development of immature skeletons from Point Hope, Alaska; 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 Arctic11 The Ipiutak spirit-scape: An archaeological phenomenon; 12 Point Hope in certain contexts: A comment; Index Summary Sixty years after their discovery, this is the first anthropological synthesis of the ancient Arctic foragers of Point Hope, Alaska Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Eskimos -- Material culture -- Alaska -- Point Hope Human remains (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Point Hope Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Point Hope SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Eskimos -- Material culture Excavations (Archaeology) Human remains (Archaeology) Alaska -- Point Hope Noordpoolgebied. Form Electronic book Author Auerbach, Benjamin M Cowgill, Libby W ISBN 9781316008140 1316008142 9781316003640 1316003647 9781139136785 113913678X 9781107022508 1107022509 9781316005903 1316005909

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