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After several years of planning, the ASC is proud to launch its own publication series. Titled Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology, the series demonstrates the growing role of the ASC as an established center of circumpolar scholarship as well as its accumulation of resources and publication experience. The initiation of the ASC series fulfills a long-standing need to present the results of research and outreach activities to broad academic and local northern audiences in a timely manner. We invite your support of this important ASC program by purchasing and helping to publicize the series, which we hope will become self-sustaining in the near future. |
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Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology Number 7 Byran’s Hood’s monograph, “Toward
an Archaeology of the Nain Region,
Labrador” reports on research on Maritime
Archaic, Pre-Dorset, Dorset and
Labrador Inuit sites carried out in the
1980s-90s. The focus is on analysis of
the Nukususutok-5 Maritime Archaic site collections and settlement
data using K-means, correspondence, and other methods. Bryan’s
model study is the most extensive contribution to Northern Labrador
culture history and will be of interest to a wide audience for its
comprehensive application of method and theory. |
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The archaeology of the Russian High Arctic is the least known of any circumpolar region. This publication of Leonid P. Khlobystin's doctoral dissertation, with new introductory and bibliographic materials, provides English-reading access to the only synthesis of one of the world's most inaccessible and challenging environments – Taymyr, a land that before the 1970s was completely unknown to archaeologists. Khlobystin's brilliant synthesis of this region grew from a series of archaeological campaigns that established the basic chronology and cultural framework for human occupations from Late Paleolithic times to the establishment of modern ethnic groups. In chapters dealing with paleoenvironment and climatic sequences, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Iron Age, and Medieval Periods, Khlobystin lays out a culture history developed from scores of hard-won excavations. More than simply describing historical sequences, Khlobystin grapples with questions of environmental constraint, cultural marginalism and frontiers, external influences, cultural affiliations, migrations and contact. |
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The 464-page volume is the product of a three-year research and outreach project sponsored by a National Science Foundation grant. A sourcebook of Yupik heritage and history, Our Words Put to Paper converts old documentary records, historical photographs and written knowledge, once collected for scientific or other purposes and stored away in distant libraries, archives and field notes, into a community resource. The book is illustrated with more than 100 historical photographs from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives; Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and some other collections. Over 80 copies have been circulated within the St. Lawrence Island Yupik communities, and donated to libraries, cultural agencies, native institutions and museums in Alaska and elsewhere. Ordering Information: |
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In 1993 , as arctic archaeology became an established academic subject in colleges and universities, practitioners came together at Dartmouth College to tell the stories of the pioneers in arctic archaeology Elmer Harp, Guy Mary-Rousselière, Frederica De Laguna, Graham Rowley, and others as well as to examine the current state of arctic archaeological research. This multi-authored volume presents the proceeds of that meeting in honor of those archaeological elders, and as a tool to assess future directions. It is illustrated with over 150 maps and photographs. Ordering Information: Please take a look at the work of one of the contributing authors to this volume at: www.tukilik.org
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Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902 was published as the first in the Arctic Studies Center's Contribution to Circumpolar Anthropology series. The publication honors anthropology's most prominent founding father, Franz Boas, and his first major project, the Jesup Expedition. The book includes chapters on the history of the Jesup Expedition, profiles of the participants and a discussion of unpublished and archival resources that are otherwise unknown. Ordering Information: |
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