The archaeology and petrology of coal artifacts from a Thule settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada

Arctic

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 345-349

  Kalkreuth, Wolfgang ^a   Sutherland, Patricia D ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Ontario History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Chair of the Canadian Nursing History Collection Working Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Arctic Canada; Axel Heiberg Island; Coal artifacts; Coal petrology; Thule culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032419945     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1077     Document Type: Article

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