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A report on the activities of the Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man for the years 1977 to 1979. Published in English.
An archaeological survey of Calling Lake, situated in the mixed wood forest zone approximately 225 km north of Edmonton, found an abundance of prehistoric material at sites on the east and southeast shore. Four prehistoric campsites were excavated in three field seasons...
Taped interviews, participant observation, sketches, and photographs pertaining to the Plains Cree and Saulteaux Rain Dance and Sweat Bath Feast illustrate the important role played by the social group in the creation of identity, maintenance of stability, and...
This volume contains papers presented at the Fifth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (London, 1978) with a particular emphasis on matters relating to ethnicity. Published in English.
This study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated technical aspects of canoe construction are combined with a description of the social and economic factors, the canoe...
The concept of taphonomy has been borrowed from paleontology and applied to the analysis of vertebrate fossils from the Old Crow region of the northern Yukon Territory. By means of this approach, archaeologically significant specimens have been isolated from the larger...
Excavations at the Washout site (NjVi-2), Herschel Island, Yukon Territory were conducted for two field seasons in order to obtain data on early Thule subsistence, and to determine the affinity of the site to later Mackenzie Inuit occupations. Published in English.
Palaeo-ecological data from central North America are synthesized in order to demonstrate the effects of the Altithermal or Atlantic Climatic Episode (circa 5500 to 3000 B.C). on vegetation. Against this environmental backdrop, Early Middle Prehistoric archaeological...
This study develops an analytical framework that treats special arrangements of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation for subarctic aboriginal societies. The geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers and fishermen from the English River...
An ethnographic examination of how the Hare, Northern Athapaskan speaking hunters and gatherers of the Fort Good Hope Game area in the Mackenzie River basin, view the world and their place in it. Published in English.
This volume describes a modern Nootka community from a historical perspective. Despite evidence of significant change over time with respect to material culture, technology, and political institutions, considerable continuity exists insofar as codes of social...
This book contains a listing of approximately 2,650 roots from the various North Waskashan lanugages, namely Heiltsuk (Bella Bella and Klemtu), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet), Haisla (Kitimat) and Kwakwala (Alert Bay, Port Hardy, etc.). Each root is illustrated with lexical...
A compilation of published ethnobotanical data pertaining to all of the Algonkian speaking peoples of eastern North America and field data concerning the Algonquin bands of the Ottawa River drainage and the Cree bands of the St. Maurice drainage of western Quebec. These...
Three essays discuss the history, folkways and mechanisms of social change among the descendants of nineteenth century immigrants from the Outer Hebridean Islands of Harris and Lewis now living in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Published in English.
Biographical sketches of seven Athapaskan women residing in the Yukon are provided together with a selection of legends and a discussion of changes in the lives of Athapaskan women in the twentieth century.Published in English.
A discussion of the different ways in which the Inuit of Rankin Inlet have chosen to adapt to a changing economy. Published in English.
This volume provides a historical overview of the development and role of Anglo-Canadian folklore studies in Canada and their relationship to similar research conducted with respect to French Canadians, minority groups within Canada, within the wider Canadian context,...
Port Refuge is a small bay on the south coast of Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, in the High Arctic. Archaeological work between 1972 and 1977 recovered remains of several prehistoric occupations of this area, which are ascribed to the Independence I, Pre-Dorset,...
Archaeological remains from two late prehistoric/early historic sites in east central Alaska ? Dakah de’nin’s, an Ahtna Athapaskan village site and Dixthada, an Upper Tanana Athapaskan site ? are presented and, with findings from a Kutchin Athapaskan site (Klo-kut) in...
Examination of vertebrate faunal remains held in museum collections is reported. To understand or identify human modification of bone and antler, the analysis emphasizes post-mortem processes including geological, biological and cultural ones that have led to the...
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