Among Indigenous populations of the Arctic, domestic dogs (Canislupus familiaris) were
social actors aiding in traction and subsistence activities. Less commonly, dogs fulfilled a fur …

Sled dogs were an integral part of Labrador Inuit life from the initial expansion and
settlement of northeastern Canada to the present day. Tasked with pulling sleds and …

This dissertation investigates the day-to-day activities that sustained human societies in the
arctic and subarctic environments of North America and Siberia over the past 1500 years …

Using skeletal remains from the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg, this study aimed
to explore whether the adolescent (< 25 years) and adult (> 25 years) male experiences …

We examine two concurrent trends in the later history of the Beothuk: changes to domestic
architecture and household composition, and the narrowing of sharing obligations. The …

Abstract While the Southside Cemetery, St. John's, Newfoundland was excavated in 1979,
previous historical and morphological investigations had been unable to distinguish …

Seabirds are the most threatened group of living birds, with a legacy of pronounced avian
extinctions on islands and coastlines extending through the Holocene and historical periods …

Obtaining human population and environmental data from a single sediment record allows
us to analyze ecosystem stressors, adaptability, and elasticity in relation to human …

Environmental samples contain a wide variety of DNA from plants, animals, bacteria and
fungi, which can be used to gain unique insights into current taxonomic diversity, but also to …

A REVIEW OF WILD AND COUNTRY FOODS IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR,
CANADA: THE IMPORTANCE OF KEY FOOD SOURCES DESPITE A DECREASE I Page 1 …