William Nathaniel Irving (1927-1987)
William Nathaniel Irving died on November 25, 1987. He was an arctic archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, internationally recognized as a leading scholar in arctic prehistory. His contributions were significant and appreciated during his lifetime. His initial res...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64794 2023-05-15T14:19:14+02:00 William Nathaniel Irving (1927-1987) Julig, Patrick Hurley, William 1988-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64794 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64794/48708 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64794 ARCTIC; Vol. 41 No. 4 (1988): December: 261–336; 332-333 1923-1245 0004-0843 Archaeology Anthropology Archaeologists Biographies Irving William Nathaniel 1927-1987 Prehistoric man Old Crow region Yukon Alaska Northern Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion obituary 1988 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:59Z William Nathaniel Irving died on November 25, 1987. He was an arctic archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, internationally recognized as a leading scholar in arctic prehistory. His contributions were significant and appreciated during his lifetime. His initial research interests were in the Inuit cultures of northern Alaska and their antecedents, which led him to study both their ethnoarchaeology and the systematics and technology of stone implements, e.g., those of the arctic small tool tradition. His major research focus in the last two decades of his career was in searching in the northern Yukon for answers to a problem that puzzled anthropologists for over a century - when did humans enter the New World? Irving spent a good deal of time studying this topic while continuing to fulfill his university responsibilities as teacher, administrator and director of numerous graduate students. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic arctic small tool tradition inuit Nunavut Old Crow Alaska Yukon University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Nunavut Yukon ARCTIC 41 4 |
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William Nathaniel Irving died on November 25, 1987. He was an arctic archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, internationally recognized as a leading scholar in arctic prehistory. His contributions were significant and appreciated during his lifetime. His initial research interests were in the Inuit cultures of northern Alaska and their antecedents, which led him to study both their ethnoarchaeology and the systematics and technology of stone implements, e.g., those of the arctic small tool tradition. His major research focus in the last two decades of his career was in searching in the northern Yukon for answers to a problem that puzzled anthropologists for over a century - when did humans enter the New World? Irving spent a good deal of time studying this topic while continuing to fulfill his university responsibilities as teacher, administrator and director of numerous graduate students. . |
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