Interpreting High Arctic Subsistence: A Zooarchaeological Investigation of Late Dorset and Inuit Fauna and Osseous Technology at Iita, NW Greenland

• Main Author: Ebel, Erika
• Other Authors: Darwent, Christyann M
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2023
• Subjects: Archaeology; Arctic; Auk; Hunter-gatherers; Inuit; Late Dorset; Zooarchaeology; Davidson; Etah; Greenland; Inglefield Land; Johansen; arctic small tool tradition; Dovekie; Inglefield land; Inughuit; inuit
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8876354n

The archaeological site of Iita in Inglefield Land, northwestern Greenland is situated within a coastal environment that has relatively high biological productivity for the High Arctic and therefore supports a diverse array of Arctic fauna which, consequently, has attracted Indigenous peoples for mi...