The Significance of Choice in Late Dorset: The technology of domestic architecture in the Eastern North American Arctic c. 1500 B.P.-500 B.P.

by Karen Ryan

This study examines the domestic architecture produced by the Late Dorset, an Arctic-adapted hunter-gatherer society which occupied much of the Eastern North American Arctic between circa 1500 B.P. and 500 B.P. Throughout this research, architecture, like any artefact class, is considered a dynamic and socially constructed technology that is produced, maintained, and transmitted by its practitioners. It is replicated via sequences of learned actions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407310488
• ISBN13: 9781407310480
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.7"