Cultural Continuities of Eskimos

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Giddings, J. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1961
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Firth River; Flint; Greenland; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Palisades; aleut; eskimo*; Kachemak; Sarqaq; St Lawrence Island; Thule; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277832; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600029346

Abstract Although the archaeology of the “Eskimo” area need not be that of Eskimos, groups of people, by whatever name they are called, have lived continuously for at least 4000 years in Greenland, around the northern rim of Hudson Bay, on the American side of Bering Strait, and probably around the...