An Archaeological Site on the North Coast of Ellesmere Island

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Hattersley-Smith, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1973
• Subjects: Long-tailed Jaegers; Ellesmere Island; Flat Rocks; Grant Ice Cap; Lake Hazen; Robeson Channel; Smith Sound; Tanquary Fiord; Wood River; Arctic; eskimo*; Ice cap; Robeson channel; Smith sound
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65974

In July 1965, at the end of a long walk westward from Alert, I marked down an Eskimo site on the south side of the well-developed delta terrace at the mouth of the Wood River, 82°30' N, 63°07' W. In setting and lay-out it resembled sites of the Independence I and II cultures that we found...