Social and ritual determinants of whale bone transport at a classic Thule winter site in the Canadian Arctic

• Published in: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
• Main Author: Whitridge, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Somerset Island; Balaena mysticetus; bowhead whale; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.613; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Foa.613; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/oa.613

Abstract Recent research has demonstrated that patterning related to harvesting selectivity and architectural bone utilization persists in the surface distribution of bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) bones at classic Thule sites in the Canadian central Arctic, despite scavenging by later non‐wha...