GEO 605 Study Guide - Wage Labour, Sealskin, Arctic Small Tool Tradition
3 Feb 2014
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Peoples of the north: traditional lifestyles and way of life, netsilik inuit family unit inside show house. 15ka before present (bp: beringia land bridge, 10,000 years ago due to glaciations, oceans are receded, nomadic people hunt and travel and cross over. Inuit were marine, where they traveled at the shallow sea: most of canada at the time was covered by ice sheets, traveled along rocky mountains and following herds. 11ka bp: inuit were last to come across to na, around the last 5000 years, there is an west/east movement. There is not a progression in alaska, canada and greenland. 4500 to 2800 bp: arctic small tool tradition (ast, did not cross the land bridge, the crossing was shallow and narrow and easily crossed by hunting on the sea ice and water. Peopling of the arctic: pre-dorest, over time people moved west discovering new hunting areas, used stone lamps, and toggle harpoons.
