| Summary: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: The twin Arctics of North America / Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen -- Archaeology of the Western Arctic / Owen K. Mason -- Arctic mirages and landscape realities -- Late Pleistocene peopling of the interior and its Holocene history -- Settling the Alaska coastal rim: the North Pacific, the Aleutians and the origin of the Aleuts -- Paleo-Inuit migration and Athapaskan origins: the Arctic small tool and the Late Northern Archaic traditions -- Whaling and salmonizing in southwest Alaska: the last 3,000 years from the Aleutians to the Yukon Delta -- Bering Strait and North Alaska during the 1st millennium AD: a cosmos in transformation -- Emergence of Supiaaq identity: the North Pacific world in flux -- the Kachemak cult and the Koniag takeover -- Emergence of Inuit identity: Thule and late prehistoric archaeology of the Eastern Arctic / T. Max Friesen -- Inuit and their ancestors: setting the stage -- Pioneers of the Eastern Arctic: early Paleo-Inuit polar life perfected: early and middle Dorset -- Twilight of the Tuniit: late Dorset -- Arrival of the Inuit: the Thule period -- From the past to the present: development of recent Inuit societies -- Eastern Arctic archaeology in the 21st century -- Conclusions: The grand themes of Arctic prehistory / Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen.
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