Faunal remains from the Wollaston Forland - Clavering Ø Region, Northeast Greenland - Thule culture subsistence in a high arctic Polynya and ice-edge habitat

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-200

  Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caribou; High arctic; Ice edge hunting; Marine mammals; Polynya; Thule culture subsistence

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CULTURE; DEER; HUNTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARINE MAMMAL; POLYNYA; SUBSISTENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

MAMMALIA; MONODON; MONODON MONOCEROS; ODOBENIDAE; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS; PHOCA HISPIDA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 78650865166     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2010.10669506     Document Type: Article

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