At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age

Antiquity

Volumn 85, Issue 329, 2011, Pages 960-977

  Grønnow, Bjarne ^a   Gulløv, Hans Christian ^a   Jakobsen, Bjarne Holm ^b   Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte ^c   Kauffmann, Laura Hauch ^b   Kroon, Aart ^b   Pedersen, Jørn Bjarke Torp ^b   Sørensen, Mikkel ^b  

^a National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Greenland; Little Ice Age; Thule culture; Walrus

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052134877     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00068423     Document Type: Article

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