The Position of Ipiutak in Eskimo Culture —Reply
The greater part of Larsen's paper is a restatement of the Ipiutak theory rather than a reply to my two specific criticisms. I feel that this theory is based on a series of questionable assumptions rather than facts, but as Larsen properly insists on “sound scientific documentation and not mere...
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crcambridgeupr:10.2307/276727 2023-05-15T15:43:45+02:00 The Position of Ipiutak in Eskimo Culture —Reply Collins, Henry B. 1954 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/276727 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600013329 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) American Antiquity volume 20, issue 01, page 79-84 ISSN 0002-7316 Museology Archeology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History journal-article 1954 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.2307/276727 2022-04-07T08:59:11Z The greater part of Larsen's paper is a restatement of the Ipiutak theory rather than a reply to my two specific criticisms. I feel that this theory is based on a series of questionable assumptions rather than facts, but as Larsen properly insists on “sound scientific documentation and not mere statements” I will not attempt to discuss the theory as a whole in the space available here but refer to a recent publication which gives my views (Collins, 1954, pp. 78-85). The second half of Larsen's paper deals for the most part with the second of the two points I raised, the relationship of the Ipiutak and Old Bering Sea cultures. This is a crucial point for the Ipiutak theory, for if I am correct the type culture of the “palae-Eskimo” complex, from the evidence of both archaeology and radiocarbon dating, is later than cultures assigned to the “neo-Eskimo” complex and also more closely related to them than to other “palae-Eskimo” cultures. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Sea eskimo* Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Bering Sea American Antiquity 20 01 79 84 |
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The greater part of Larsen's paper is a restatement of the Ipiutak theory rather than a reply to my two specific criticisms. I feel that this theory is based on a series of questionable assumptions rather than facts, but as Larsen properly insists on “sound scientific documentation and not mere statements” I will not attempt to discuss the theory as a whole in the space available here but refer to a recent publication which gives my views (Collins, 1954, pp. 78-85). The second half of Larsen's paper deals for the most part with the second of the two points I raised, the relationship of the Ipiutak and Old Bering Sea cultures. This is a crucial point for the Ipiutak theory, for if I am correct the type culture of the “palae-Eskimo” complex, from the evidence of both archaeology and radiocarbon dating, is later than cultures assigned to the “neo-Eskimo” complex and also more closely related to them than to other “palae-Eskimo” cultures. |
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