Later Prehistory of the Middle Porcupine Drainage, Northern Yukon Territory


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Description and analysis of artifacts and faunal remains from the Klokut site. Other sites in the middle Porcupine drainage, northern Yukon Territory, are also mentioned in an attempt to reconstruct the subsistence economy, annual cycle, and settlement patterns of the late prehistoric Kutchin.







Prehistory of the Aishihik-Kluane Area, Southwest Yukon Territory


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A detailed survey of the archaeology of southwest Yukon Territory, based upon excavations in 1966 and 1968 as well as laboratory analysis of all sizeable collections obtained earlier. Archaeological, ethnographic and paleoenvironmental data are integrated into a synthetic view of prehistory in northwestern North America.




Thule Eskimo Culture


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Proceedings of a symposium devoted to Thule archaeology and related northern studies, held at the tenth annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Ottawa in 1977. The thirty-one papers range from Thule chronology and culture history, prehistoric-recent continuities, adaptation and climatological relationships, site interpretations, technology and art, human biology, to the history of archaeological development.




Marriage Patterns in an Archaic Population


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This study is based on the premise that marriage patterns determine the composition of the adult segment of hunter-gatherer groups, and that the composition is reflected in the expression of osteological traits within and between sexes. Analysis of metric and non-metric traits in adult skeletons from Locus II of the Port au Choix3 site suggest the practice of exogamy coupled with a virilocal post-nuptial marriage pattern.




Contributions to Physical Anthropology, 1978-1980


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Contains seven papers dealing with the physical anthropology of earlier Canadian Native populations or with subject materials relevant to the interpretation of their skeletal remains. Included are two site reports on prehistoric burials from British Columbia, a detailed investigation of mandibular torus, a skeletal trait commonly reported in Arctic populations and problems in paleopathology.




Experimental Study of Microwear Formation on Endscrapers


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This thesis is an experimental lithic study designed to test the hypothesis that wear patterns which form on stone tools are diagnostic of the material on which the tool was used. The results of the experiments indicate that the hypothesis is substantiated, or not refuted.




Development and Distribution of Discontinuous Morphological Variation of the Human Infracranial Skeleton


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Over 1,400 individual skeletons from three major skeletal populations were examined for a series of approximately fifty infracranial non-metric traits. Trait frequencies are studied for size, sex and age differences, trait intercorrelations, and association with bone robusticity. Skeletal population studies are performed using various combinations of the traits and two distance statistics.




Cadzow Lake Site (Mjvi 1)


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Description and analysis of artifacts and fauna in three historic components of a small stratified site on the Porcupine River, in the northern Yukon Territory.