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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walls, Matthew D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 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