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Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood is a cross-cultural ethnoarchaeological examine of the gendered nature of subsistence in northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. according to box reports of 4 circumpolar societies, it records the complexities of women’s and men’s involvement in meals procurement, processing, and garage, and the connection of such behaviors to the equipped panorama. warding off simplistic stereotypes of female and male roles, the framework of “gendered landscapes” unearths the range and suppleness of women’s and men’s real lives in a fashion worthwhile for archaeological interpretations of hunter-foragers.

Innovative in scope and layout, this can be the 1st learn to hire a managed, four-way, cross-cultural comparability of gender and subsistence. individuals of a world workforce of anthropologists skilled in northern scholarship observe a similar task-differentiation technique in experiences of Chipewyan hunter-fishers of Canada, Khanty hunter-fisher-herders of Western Siberia, Sámi in depth reindeer herders of northwestern Finland, and Iñupiaq maritime hunters of the Bering Strait of Alaska. This database on gender and subsistence is used to re-evaluate one of many bedrock ideas in anthropology and social technology: the sexual department of work.

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Archaeological survey by Gordon in the area between Cree Lake and Pipestone Lake recovered complexes of materials that have been associated with ancestral Chipewyan at sites much farther north. Farther south along the Churchill River archaeological research by Meyer and his colleagues (Meyer 1980; Meyer et al. 1981:105) recovered ceramics and other artifacts usually attributed to protohistoric and early historic (ad 1400– 1750) Algonquian-speaking Cree populations in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. No evidence of these Cree-related materials was found north of the Churchill River, however.

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