Thule Iron Use in the Pre-contact Arctic

• Main Author: Colligan, Eileen
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: CUNY Academic Works 2017
• Subjects: Neoeskimo; spatial analysis; cut mark analysis; Greenland; Alaska; Inuit; Archaeological Anthropology; Geographic Information Sciences; Arctic; Cape York; greenlandic; inuit; Thule; Thule culture
• Online Access: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2342; https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3379&context=gc_etds

This thesis examines the use of iron by the Thule people, a Neoeskimo culture that lived in the North American Arctic between approximately 1000 AD and 1400 ̶ 1500 AD. The study takes a pan-Arctic perspective to bring together research that has usually been done on a more-limited geographical scale....