Going to the birds: Examining the importance of avian resources to Pre-Dorset subsistence strategies on southern Baffin Island

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-112

  Milne, S Brooke ^a   Donnelly, Sarah M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; RESOURCE USE; SUBSISTENCE;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 5444242474     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0036     Document Type: Article

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