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The first comprehensive overview of the Native peoples residing in the Hudson’s River area since E. M. Ruttenber’s History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson’s River (1872), this volume utilizes data from a variety of sources including archaeology, historical documents, and...
Continuing the work of early researchers like Franz Boas and Amelia Susman, this volume offers readers an indexed Coast Tsimshian dictionary where each lexical entry includes a practical transcription, morphological description, English glosses, and phonetic...
Prepared for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Ethnology Society, this guide is a revision of one prepared in 1973-74 and provides detailed information on the 72 departments and 1,374 individual scholars for university departments of...
This volume comprises a selection of papers and reviews concerning material culture. Bilingual Ediion.
An analysis of the forces of assimilation affecting Romanian immigrants to Saskatchewan from the turn of the century to the present. Published in English.
This volume constitutes a description of the origin and development of the Finnish sauna in Manitoba including the evolution of its construction and its social significance for the Manitoba Finnish community. The author concludes that the sauna functions as a metaphor...
Ten samples of skeletal material, from the archaeological sites of Morrison’s Island, Allumette Island, Hind, Cole, Picton, Frontenac Island, Oconto, Riverside, Osceola, and Reigh, are described and examined with regard to cremation techniques, pathological conditions,...
This study defines an early Late Woodland manifestation in southwestern Ontario, the Princess Point Complex.This complex is seen as an early developmental stage of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition. Evidence is presented for changing subsistence and settlement patterns in...
The Saugeen culture of southwestern Ontario (circa 700 B.C and 800 A.D.) is examined at intrasite and intersite levels of comparisons. It is suggested that the Saugeen, Point Peninsula and North Bay cultures should be considered as Middle Tier cultures which interacted...
The Majorville is a large cairn located in the centre of a medicine wheel, situated south of Bassano, Alberta, on the banks of the Bow River. Stratigraphic excavation indicates initial construction in Oxbow times, with additional accretions ending in the Historic...
A model relating human cognition to the decisions made in tool manufacture is advanced as a substitute for those approaches to artifact classification which rely only on morphology. The model is related to experiments designed to link specific input conditions (in stone...
A study of technology, subsistence and settlement patterns of the late Pre-Dorset people who occupied a large coastal site near Churchill, Manitoba around 3,000 years ago. Published in English.
Using selected ceramic attributes from twenty-eight prehistoric and historic Iroquoian sites in Ontario an attempt is made to demonstrate the existence of clustering of historically related sites. These data are then used to outline the economic and political processes...
Excavations in 1971 and 1972 reveal two major occupation levels at the Estuary Bison Pound site, located near the head of a large coulee on the south bank of the South Saskatchewan River, just below its confluence with the Red Deer River. They present strong evidence to...
A contribution to the archaeological identification of the Beothuks, this study presents data on the settlement pattern and lithic assemblage from four coastal sites in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Radiocarbon dates ranging from A.D. 210 to 905 suggests that this bay,...
An examination of social cognitive patterning from the perspective of a Mackenzie drainage Dene community with additional discussion of related topics, including communication, learning, and classification. Published in English.
Utilizing anecdotal, technical, and documentary data as well as historical photographs and photographs of logging and associated artifacts curated by the Museum, the author of this text offers insights into West Coast logging from the contact period to the demise of the...
This study is an analysis and functional interpretation of the cultural remains from a Middle Period bison hunters’ campsite situated in the parklands of central Saskatchewan. The Harder site, excavated by the author during 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972, and radiocarbon...
The origin and development of historic Caribou Inuit culture from prehistoric classic Thule is explained using archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence. Published in English.
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