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A Theoretical approach to northeastern Dene archaeology
western Canadian journal of anthropology • 5 (3-4) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 187-229
By: McCormack, Patricia Alice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
McCormack creates a model of probable aboriginal resource use and speculates on how this resource use would have effected the human annual cycle of movement and settlement patterns. This is done by examining the environments, especially their flora and fauna, of the lichen-woodland subzone and the shrubby tundra subzone in detail and determining which resources it would have been most adaptive for humans to use. The goal of the paper is to help the archaeologist to form models against which their site interpretations can be tested.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Fauna
- Flora
- Annual cycle
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Proto-Athapaskans
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patricia A. McCormack
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81039011
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Athapaskan Indians--Antiquities