Arctic articles from September 1996

Arctic archives from September 1996

Old Kiavak site, Kodiak Island, Alaska, and the Early Kachemak phase.
September 1, 1996... (Received 14 November 1995; accepted in revised form 4 March 1996) ABSTRACT. Excavations from 1963 on Kodiak Island, Alaska represent an early regional phase of the Kachemak tradition called "Early Kachemak" and a local phase called "Old...

Stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating and culture history of Charlie Lake Cave, British Columbia.
September 1, 1996... (Received 23 August 1995; accepted in revised form 27 April 1996) ABSTRACT. Three seasons of fieldwork at Charlie Lake Cave, British Columbia, have revealed a sequence of stratified deposits that spans the Late Pleistocene and entire...

Indigenous knowledge in environmental assessment.
September 1, 1996... (Received 24 October 1995; accepted in revised form 30 April 1996) ABSTRACT. Increasingly, federal environmental guidelines require developers to consider the "traditional knowledge" of aboriginal people in assessing the impact of proposed...

Breeding season irruptions of rough-legged hawks (Buteo lagopus) on insular Newfoundland.
September 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. Rough-legged hawks (Buteo lagopus Pontoppidan), a species typically associated with more northerly regions, occurred in unusually high numbers on insular Newfoundland in the summers of 1988 and 1993, and some pairs nested in...

Our boots: an Inuit women's art.
September 1, 1996... I saw my first pair of Inuit boots in Greenland in the summer of 1954; acquired my first pair in Labrador in the summer of 1959; and developed profound admiration for the warmth, light weight, and durability of still another pair in Alaska...

Northern governments in transition: political, and constitutional development in the Yukon, Nunavut and the western Northwest Territories.
September 1, 1996... This book, a successful collaboration between an accomplished academic and a longtime Northerner and public servant, is a useful and important survey of recent developments in Canada's northern territories. The authors' objectives are to "give...

Traditional beluga drives of the Inupiat of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska.
September 1, 1996... Across the North American Arctic, past Inuit-Inupiat lifeways were characterized by great diversity. Each regional society moved through a distinct annual round of resource acquisition, population aggregation and dispersal, and accompanying...

Paugvik: a nineteenth-century Native village on Bristol Bay, Alaska.
September 1, 1996... This useful book should be on the shelf of every practicing northern archaeologist. The latest in a long series, this study reflects the continuing commitment of Dr. James W. VanStone and the Field Museum of Natural History to documenting...

Poles apart: parallel visions of the Arctic and Antarctic.
September 1, 1996... There are thousands of books about the Arctic and thousands more about the Antarctic. A few books deal with both ends of our earth; visually and emotionally, none are as good as Galen Rowell's Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and...

Richard Guy Condon (1952-1995).
September 1, 1996... On 7 September 1995, Rick Condon disappeared and is presumed to have drowned while conducting fieldwork in Chukotka. He, three colleagues, and five Siberian Yup'ik Eskimos from Sireniki were lost while traveling by small skin boat along the...