Wooden Houses from the Western Nort American Arctic 15th-18th c. : methodology for a restitution of building techniques

• Main Author: Méreuze, Rémi
• Other Authors: Archéologie des Amériques (ArchAm), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, Dominique Legoupil
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: Archaeology; American Arctic; Architecture; Virtual reality; Canada; Iñupiat; Inuvialuit; Alaska; Archéologie; Arctique américain; Réalité virtuelle; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; [SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history; Arctic; Mackenzie Delta; Northwest Territories; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03295590; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03295590/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03295590/file/MEREUZE_THESE_DIFFUSION.pdf

In the western North American Arctic, architectural remains of frozen sites are often extremely well preserved. Layers closer to the present surface are often in a lesser state of preservation than lower levels, sometimes difficult to define. These remains are those of winter houses occupied by the...