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, prov...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Anthropology Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto
2010
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Online Access: | https://vav.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/vav/article/view/12342 |