Arctic and subarctic culture history and archaeological sites, and other information related to the people of the arctic and subarctic regions of the world.
An extensive list of references on the arctic and subarctic culture of Alaska, by Ken Schoenberg of the National Park Service.
From R. W. Park at the University of Waterloo, a cultural prehistory of the arctic culture of the North American arctic region.
The Belkachi culture is the named given to a Middle Neolithic culture in the arctic and subarctic culture region of northern Baikal, Siberia, between 5000-3900 years before the present.
Tony Baker's photographs of artifacts recovered from the north slope of Alaska, including several projectile points.
Thule tradition peoples in the Canadian High Arctic faced the long winters in small communities on coastal margins in arctic and subarctic culture regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.
Nelson River is a Thule Tradition site, located on southern coast of Banks Island in the Canadian High Arctic.
The Nenana Valley of central Alaska is the site of one of the earliest archaeological occupations in the American subarctic region.
The Norse culture is the name used for Viking warriors who were great adventurers, and invaded the arctic and subarctic culture groups from the Viking homeland to Iceland, Greenland, and yes, even Canada.
The Norton culture refers to one of several arctic and subarctic cultures in North America related to the Small Tool Tradition.
The Pre-Dorset culture is a North American arctic and subarctic culture of Greenland and Canada, first appearing there about 4500 years ago; the people probably arrived from Siberia.
The Punuk Culture (600-1200 AD) is the name given to the whaling subarctic culture who lived along the old Bering Sea of Alaska.
The subarctic culture known as Serovo-Glazkovo culture refers to a Siberian Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (4200-3200 BP) culture located in the Baikal area of Russia.
The Shield Archaic Tradition is the name given to a prehistoric arctic and subarctic culture of the boreal forests of the northern Canadian Shield between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay.
The subarctic culture called Syalakh is an Early Neolithic (6500-5200 BP) culture in the subarctic region of Siberia.
The Taltheilei Shale Tradition is the name given to the material culture of the late prehistoric western subarctic culture, dated between 750 B.C. and A.D. 1000.
In 1845 Sir John Franklin went looking for the Northwest Passage, but never made it. A clearinghouse for information on the web about his illfated trip into the arctic and subarctic regions of Canada.
From Jean-Luc Pilon of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, discussion and site descriptions of research into a stone tool complex related to the Denbigh Flint Complex.
Robert McGhee’s The Last Imaginary Place is either about the courageous nature of the western mind, or about its sheer lunacy in exploring the dangerous beauty of the arctic and subarctic culture regions of our planet. I can’t decide which.
From the National Park Service, an archaeological overview of the arctic and subarctic cultures of Alaska.
The Thule Tradition is the name given to the ancestors of the modern day Inuit peoples of the Canadian High Arctic, who have lived in the region for at least a thousand years.
Thule tradition is the name given to late prehistoric whale hunters of the Chukchi Sea. Thule culture people are considered the best adapted culture of the arctic and subarctic regions.
