Population Structure and Demographic History of Human Arctic Populations Using Quantitative Cranial Traits

• Main Author: Maley, Blaine
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Washington University Open Scholarship 2011
• Subjects: Physical Anthropology; Archaeology; Alaska; Arctic; Biological Relationships; Human Migration; Ipiutak; Point Hope; Greenland; Barrow; Point Barrow; Thule
• Online Access: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/225; https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1224&context=etd

The Arctic of North America provides an excellent laboratory for examining human population movement and differentiation. This research utilizes cranial morphological variation from 27 discrete Arctic populations spread across the North American Arctic to examine the role that culture and migration...