Table of Contents

The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic
Edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason

Archaeology of the North American Arctic: IntroductionELT. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason

Cross-Cutting Themes
Molecular Genetic Evidence for the Origins of North American PopulationsELRohina C. Rubicz and Michael H. Crawford
Ancient DNA and Stable Isotopes: Windows on Arctic PrehistoryELJustin Tackney, Joan Coltrain, Jennifer Raff, and Dennis O'Rourke
Zooarchaeology and the Reconstruction of Ancient Human-Animal Relationships in the ArcticELMatthew W. Betts
A Critical Resource: Wood Use and Technology in the North American ArcticELClaire Alix
Archaeological Evidence for Transport, Trade and Exchange in the North American ArcticELJeffrey T. Rasic
Palaeoeskimo Lithic TechnologyELPierre M. Desrosiers and Mikkel Sørensen
Arctic ArchaeometallurgyELH. Kory Cooper
Archaeology and Native Northerners: The Rise of Community-Based Practice Across the North American ArcticELNatasha Lyons

Western Arctic
First Traces: Late Pleistocene Human Settlement of the ArcticELTed Goebel and Ben A. Potter
The Origins and Development of Arctic Maritime Adaptations in the Pacific SubarcticELBen Fitzhugh
First Maritime Cultures of the AleutiansELRichard Davis, Richard Knecht, and Jason Rogers
Maritime Economies of the Central Gulf of Alaska after 4,000 BPELAmy Steffian, Patrick Saltonstall, and Linda Finn Yarborough
Archaeology of the Eastern Aleut RegionELHerbert D. G. Maschner
The Denbigh Flint Complex of Northern AlaskaELAndrew H. Tremayne and Jeffrey T. Rasic
The Enigmatic Choris and Old Whaling Cultures of the Western ArcticELChristyann M. Darwent and John Darwent
Norton Hunters and Fisherfolk of Southern AlaskaELDon E. Dumond
The Old Bering Sea Florescence about Bering StraitELOwen K. Mason
From the Norton Culture to the Ipiutak Cult in northwest AlaskaELOwen K. Mason
Ancient Eskimo Cultures of ChukotkaELMikhail M. Bronshtein, Kirill A. Dneprovsky, and Arkady B. Savinetsky
Thule Origins in the Old Bering Sea culture: The Inter-relationship of Punuk and Birnirk culturesELOwen K. Mason
Archaeology of the Late Western Thule/Inupiat in North Alaska (AD 1300-1750)ELAnne M. Jensen
Holocene Prehistory of the Northwestern SubarcticELBen A. Potter
The Precontact History of Subarctic Northwest CanadaELGlen MacKay and Thomas D. Andrews
Development of Mackenzie Inuit CultureELCharles Arnold
The Aleutian Tradition: The Last 4000 yearsELDebra Corbett and Michael Yarborough
Contact and Post-Contact Iñupiat EthnohistoryELAnne M. Jensen and Glenn W. Sheehan

Eastern Arctic
Reconstructing Middle and Late Holocene Paleoclimates of the Eastern Arctic and GreenlandELSarah A. Finkelstein
Pan-Arctic Population Movements: The Early Paleo-Inuit and Thule Inuit MigrationsELT. Max Friesen
Pre-Dorset cultureELS. Brooke Milne and Robert W. Park
Independence I and Saqqaq: The First GreenlandersELBjarne Grønnow
Greenlandic DorsetELJens Fog Jensen
The 'Dorset Problem' Revisited - the Transitional and Early and Middle Dorset Periods in the Eastern ArcticELKaren Ryan
Late DorsetELMartin Appelt, Eric Damkjar, and T. Max Friesen
The Dorset-Thule TransitionELRobert W. Park
Classic Thule [Classic Precontact Inuit]ELPeter Whitridge
Labrador Inuit: thriving on the periphery of the Inuit worldELSusan A. Kaplan and James M. Woollett
Development of Polar Inughuit Culture in the Smith Sound RegionELGenevieve M. LeMoine and Christyann M. Darwent
Inuit-European Interactions in GreenlandELHans Christian Gulløv
Thule-Inuit succession in the Central ArcticELPeter Dawson
Archaeology of the Inuit of Southern Labrador and the Quebec Lower North ShoreELWilliam W. Fitzhugh

About the Author

T. Max Friesen is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Owen K. Mason is a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.

Reviews

"The Handbook deserves to become an essential reference for twenty-first-century archaeologists; it belongs in the personal library of any serious scholar of the North American Arctic past and in the libraries of most universities." -- Erica Hill, Alaska Journal of Anthropology