Paleocarpentry in the Eastern Arctic: an Inferential Exploration of Saqqaq Kayak Construction

Because wooden artifacts are rarely preserved in ‘stone age ’ archaeological contexts, it is difficult to study the actual techniques through which lithic tools were used in a complementary fashion to manipulate the natural properties of wood. Saqqaq culture (~4400-3300 BP), from West Greenland, pro...

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Main Author: Matthew Walls
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.676.857
http://vav.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/vav/article/viewFile/12342/11070/