Biology Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Chapter 6: Genetic and Microscopic Analysis of Human Dental Calculus from Swift Water Place
Book Title
Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact
ORCID ID
0000-0003-4540-7106
ResearcherID
D-1147-2018
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9781602233683
Publication Date
6-2019
Editors
Doug D. Anderson and Wanni W. Anderson
Description
Full Book Description: This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in the Kobuk River area. But their status was forever transformed thanks to two major factors. They faced a food shortage prompted by the decline in caribou, one of their major foods. This was also the time when European and Asian trade items were first introduced into their traditional society. The first trade items to arrive, a decade ahead of the Europeans themselves, were glass beads and pieces of metal that the Inupiat expertly incorporated into their traditional implements. This book integrates ethnohistoric, bio-anthropological, archaeological, and oral historical analyses.
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
First Page
205
Last Page
222
Disciplines
Anthropology | Biological and Physical Anthropology | Biology | Life Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Warinner, Christina; Andrew T. Ozga; Anita Radini; Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan; and Cecil M. Lewis Jr.. (2019). Chapter 6: Genetic and Microscopic Analysis of Human Dental Calculus from Swift Water Place. In Doug D. Anderson and Wanni W. Anderson (Eds.), Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact .