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Ancient People of the Arctic traces the lives of the Palaeo-Eskimos, the bold first explorers of the Arctic. Four thousand years ago, these people entered the far northern extremes of the North American continent, carving a living out of their bleak new homeland. From the hints they left behind, acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGhee, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2001.
Edition:Paperback edition
Subjects:
Dorset culture.
Inuit > Antiquities.
Archaeology > Canada, Northern.
Archaeology > Arctic regions.
Canada, Northern > Antiquities.
Arctic regions > Antiquities.
Culture de Dorset.
Archéologie > Canada (Nord)
Archéologie > Arctique.
Arctique > Antiquités.
Dorset.
15.85 history of America.
73.06 ethnography.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Dorset culture
Inuit > Antiquities
Arctic Regions
Northern Canada
Eskimo's.
Noordpoolgebied.
Paleo-Indians > Canada, Northern.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Canada, Northern.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. People of the imagination
  • 2. Eskimo history
  • 3. An Asiatic people in America
  • 4. The people of the Muskox Way
  • 5. The great exploration
  • 6. When the climate changes
  • 7. How an Arctic culture was transformed
  • 8. The Dorset people
  • 9. Lost visions
  • 10. Encounters and isolation
  • 11. The end of the Dorset world.