This study presents data from archaeological structures connected with caribou hunting in
the northeastern Nuuk region with a focus on construction, structure, and topographical …

During the last five years, systematic archaeological investigations have been carried out in
a previously unstudied area, the central West Greenland interior. This paper reviews the …

This paper describes hunting of polar bear [Ursus maritimus) and outlines its importance
today in the isolated hunting community of Ittoqqortoormiit/Scoresbysund, NE Greenland …

Terrestrial adaptations of late prehistoric (Thule) arctic hunter-gatherers are considered in
terms of the population dynamics of a critical terrestrial resource, the barrenground caribou …

Caribou drive systems made of stone lines and cairns [inuksuit] are a common feature of the
far north but have been little studied by archaeologists. Two communal caribou kill sites from …

In 2012, a series of interviews was carried out with Greenlandic hunters (26 to 86 years old)
on caribou hunting and utilization in central West Greenland. As recently as 1950 AD, almost …

Recent excavations in northern Greenland at the early Inuit site, Nuulliit, belonging to the
Ruin Island Phase of the Thule culture, included a settlement area in front of House 30, a turf …

While drive lanes and other caribou hunting structures are best preserved and best known
from the Arctic, hunting structures targeting diverse species of ungulates represent a global …

In 1997, the first author noted a large concentration of caribou (Rangifer sp.) fecal pellets
and a caribou antler on a permanent snow patch in the Kusawa Lake area of southern …

This dissertation explores human-animal relationships within two very different societies,
Late Dorset (500 CE to 1300 CE) and Thule Inuit (1200 CE to 1500 CE), who occupied …