Les monuments de cailloux dans le paysage arctique

• Published in: Cahiers de géographie du Québec
• Main Author: Hamelin, Louis-Édmond
• Format: Text
• Language: French
• Published: Département de géographie de l'Université Laval 1956
• Subjects: Arctic; Cairn; Arctique*
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/020001ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/020001ar

Stones and pebbles are everywhere in the Canadian Arctic it is an integrant part of its physical landscape. When these stones and pebbles are put together in one spot to form a monument, a cairn, a land mark, a tumulus, it is still more significant, it reveals the appearance of men in the country. Man is the principal cause among others of the inukshuks or cairns. The article deals with : 1. a classification according to shapes of the cairns : 2. a description of their main characteristics 3. an analysis of the responsible agents, especially men and its motives.