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1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don E. Dumond
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New World ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
First Americans

Strange Old World - Late Paleocene—Early Eocene Climatic and Biotic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Record. Edited by Marie-Pierre Aubry, Spencer Lucas, and William Berggren Columbia University Press, New York. 1998. 513 pages.

Paleobiology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Clyde
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
New World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Old World ◽  
Biotic Events ◽  
Brave New World

In his 1932 book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley laid out a satirical blueprint of a future so strange to people of the time that it became a symbol of the frightening and unyielding momentum of scientific progress. Literature and popular culture have since been littered with images of a future earth so transformed by human progress (or extraterrestrial intervention) that we can hardly recognize it. Earth historians and paleontologists, however, have taken a different path into the bizarre. This group of time travelers has used the kind of technology that Huxley foreshadowed to recreate past worlds of similar disparity. These worlds are neither based on, nor entirely limited by, human imagination, but are based instead on scientific observation. In short, these strange old worlds are real, not imagined. As often is the case, however, truth can b e stranger than fiction.

Archaeological Investigations in the Arctic and Subarctic, 1957

ARCTIC ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
R.S. MacNeish
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
International Geophysical Year ◽  
Parallel Change ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Dawson City

... I shall attempt to summarize the various archaeological activities that occurred in the Arctic and subarctic during the last summer. ... Members of a party called Operation Hazen organized by the Defence Research Board as part of the Canadian program for the International Geophysical Year worked on archaeological remains on Ellesmere Island, discovering four sites of aboriginal structures. One, about twenty miles north of Lake Hazen; one on the shores of Lake Hazen; and two along the Ruggles River. Few artifacts were uncovered since they did no digging. These sites, however, are of considerable significance for not only are they the northernmost sites in the Canadian Arctic but they are situated along the hypothetical route of migration from the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. ... Dr. Jorgen Meldgaard of the National Museum of Denmark, returned to the Alarnerk Site in the Igloolik area on the Melville Peninsula after two season's absence. ... Most of these early pre-Dorset remains appear to belong to an early and late period having burins, micro-blades, side-blades, small end-blades, and other artifacts indicating a close relationship with both the Cape Denbigh Flint Complex of Alaska as well as with Sarqaq of Greenland. The sequential changes in his artifact types from these pre-Dorset remains closely parallel change of types from the four middle cultural phases from the Firth River in the Canadian Yukon. ... Mr. William E. Taylor of the National Museum of Canada undertook preliminary excavation and survey in the interior as well as the coast and adjacent islands of the northern part of the Ungava Peninsula. His activities in the interior were at Payne Lake where he found about forty house remains, of which he excavated four. All of these were Dorset with one having a slight overlay of Eskimo remains. On the coast at the estuary of the Payne River, he uncovered another Dorset site as well as one Dorset burial. ... At Sugluk, seven sites were investigated and five of these appear to be Dorset villages with semi-subterranean rectangular houses. My endeavours were in the southern part of the Yukon Territory between Johnsons Crossing, Kluane Lake, Dawson City, and Mayo. Ninety-seven sites were discovered as well as about 1,000 artifacts. The sites seem to belong to at least six different artifact complexes, four of which were below the volcanic ash layers dated about 300 A.D. Twenty-eight of the sites are micro-blade sites. In Alaska, Dr. Ivar Skarland of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska, during the last part of the summer, investigated interior sites on which "Puma" projectile points have been found. Mr. Gordon Lowther, of the McCord Museum of McGill University of Montreal, undertook archaeological survey in the Old Crow Flats in the Yukon Territory. He was most successful in finding fourteen archaeological sites as well as places at which mammoth bones occurred. As yet, his materials have not been analysed ....

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