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Ground Slates in the Scandinavian Younger Stone Age with Reference to Circumpolar Maritime Adaptations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

William Fitzhugh
William Fitzhugh
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Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Circumpolar culture theory has been a persistent unifying theme in northern anthropology, playing a formative role in the development of general anthropological theory and stimulating numerous archaeological and ethnological studies of high latitude regions. One of the most important contributions to this field was Gutorm Gjessing's Circumpolar Stone Age (1944). Today this work is known as a timely synthesis in which ethnological and archaeological data were marshalled in support of an hypothesis of northern diffusion through the Arctic and Taiga zones from Scandinavia to northeastern North America. The principal elements in this proposed diffusion chain included toggling harpoons, large skin boats, oil lamps, ulu-type knives, ground slate tools, the curved-back adze or gouge, and cord-marked pottery. Later additions to this circumpolar adaptive complex included parallels in social structure, religion, and mythology (Gjessing 1953; Nordland 1968).

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 40 , December 1974 , pp. 45 - 58
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1974

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