Polynyas and Ice Edge Habitats in Cultural Context: Archaeological Perspectives from Southeast Baffin Island

ABSTRACT. A combination of paleoclimatic proxies, zooarchaeological data from historic Inuit habitation sites, and Geographic Information System (GIS) studies of modern sea-ice extremes were used to track the changing size and shape in modern times of a polynya situated in outer Frobisher Bay, Baffi...

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Main Author: Anne Henshaw
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.532.2321
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic56-1-1.pdf