Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The twin Arctics of North America / Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen
  • Archaeology of the Western Arctic / Owen K. Mason
  • Arctic mirages and landscape realities
  • Late Pleistocene peopling of the interior and its Holocene history
  • Settling the Alaska coastal rim : the North Pacific, the Aleutians and the origin of the Aleuts
  • Paleo-Inuit migration and Athapaskan origins : the Arctic small tool and the Late Northern Archaic traditions
  • Whaling and salmonizing in southwest Alaska : the last 3,000 years from the Aleutians to the Yukon Delta
  • Bering Strait and North Alaska during the 1st millennium AD : a cosmos in transformation
  • Emergence of Supiaaq identity : the North Pacific world in flux
  • the Kachemak cult and the Koniag takeover
  • Emergence of Inuit identity : Thule and late prehistoric archaeology of the Eastern Arctic / T. Max Friesen
  • Inuit and their ancestors : setting the stage
  • Pioneers of the Eastern Arctic : early Paleo-Inuit polar life perfected : early and middle Dorset
  • Twilight of the Tuniit : late Dorset
  • Arrival of the Inuit : the Thule period
  • From the past to the present : development of recent Inuit societies
  • Eastern Arctic archaeology in the 21st century
  • Conclusions: The grand themes of Arctic prehistory / Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen.