| Hotel Grønland: Human use of caves and rock shelters in West Greenland Contributor(s): Pasda, Clemens (Author) |
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ISBN: 1841716588 ISBN-13: 9781841716589 Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd OUR PRICE: $45.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Polar Regions - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 998.2 |
| LCCN: 2005363702 |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (0.71 lbs) 94 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work is a study of rock shelter sites used by arctic hunter-gatherers of all periods in the specific physical landscape of continental climate-type tundra in the interior of Central West Greenland investigated by field-surveys from 1999-2002. Excavations alone do not reveal the full significance of these sites and the author includes a review of the ethnographic and ethno-historic sources which show the large variability in the use of caves, rock shelters and boulders: places for telling stories, homes for mythical beings, entrances to the underworld, and centres for ritual and 'magic'. |