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TOWARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NAIN REGION, LABRADOR. By BRYAN C. HOOD. Edited by WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 2008. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology 7, ISBN 978-0-9816142-0-5. 366 p., maps, b&w illus., references, index. Softbound. US$34.95.
Bryan Hood has worked throughout the circumpolar region for more than 30 years--in northern Labrador, northern Norway and Russia, Greenland, and Baffin Island. This volume presents the results of conceptual and physical revisits to early haunts in Nain, Labrador. The social structuration of space is the theoretical thread that holds together this "quilt of many coloured pieces," as Hood describes his work (p. 347). Old and new archaeological data are brought together from several sites, with emphasis on Maritime Archaic and Pre-Dorset manifestations on Nukasusutok Island and Webb Bay/Port Manvers Run. An intriguing elongated distribution of Archaic...
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