Living in the narrows: Subsistence economy and culture change in labrador inuit society during the contact period

World Archaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 370-387

  Woollett, James M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal house; Environmental change; Labrador inuit; Seal hunting; Subsistence; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COPING STRATEGY; CULTURAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUNTER-GATHERER;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND;

EID: 0033015257     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1999.9980418     Document Type: Article

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