Nineteenth century Copper Inuit subsistence practices on Banks Island, N.W.T.

• Author / Creator

  Will, Richard T.

• Doctoral thesis which adopts an approach designed by Binford to examine how muskoxen were exploited by the Copper Inuit who lived on northern Banks Island during the nineteenth century. A set of food value indices are developed for muskox anatomical parts, which are used to predict how the carcasses of these animals were exploited at three archaeological sites.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Canadian Arctic
  • Inuit--Northwest Territories--Food
  • Canada, North of 60
  • Archaeology
  • Muskox--Northwest Territories--Banks Island
  • Artifacts
  • Indian Prehistory
  • Inuit Prehistory
  • Eskimo Prehistory
  • Northern Canada
  • Banks Island
  • Inuit, Customs
  • Banks Island (N.W.T.)--History
  • Antiquities
  • Inuit--Northwest Territories--Banks Island
  • Inuit--Northwest Territories--Antiquities
  • Eskimos, Customs
  • Precontact
  • Muskoxen

• Graduation date

  1985

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Doctor of Philosophy

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3542JF4X

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.