Robert Mcghee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82797 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Mcghee |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Mcghee |
| FIRMA | MCGHEE R |
| AFILIACIONES | Musée de la Civilisation |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
In Memoriam
The archaeological construction of aboriginality
This chapter argues that the Western concept of "Aboriginal" has very little to do with a history of colonization, but instead carries a significant weight of meaning derived from earlier European concepts of "primitive man". It also argues that archaeology has contributed significantly to the perpetuation of this perspective. The chapter focuses on the Inuit societies of Arctic Canada and Greenland, and discusses how views of Inuit history have …
Commentary
The problems and goals noted in the papers comprising this volume are compared with those of North American archaeology. A more restricted framing of the concept of ‘archaeological ethics’ is suggested, together with a more mindful consideration of the social, economic and political implications of archaeological work and interpretation.Les problèmes et les objectifs soulevés dans les articles constituant ce volume sont comparés avec ceux que l'o…
Ivory for the sea woman
Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology - 1
Of Strawmen, Herrings, and Frustrated Expectations
The author argues that these critiques are based primarily on mistaken readings of his original article. He contends that Indigenous archaeology is a social project without a demonstrated intellectual foundation
Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archaeology
This paper contends that proponents of various forms of Indigenous Archaeology base their argument on a paradigm of Aboriginal essentialism ('Aboriginalism') that is derived from the long-discarded concept of Primitive Man. The development of Aboriginalism is explored as a mutually reinforcing process between Indigenous and Western scholars, based on evidence that is at best anecdotal. The adoption of this flawed concept by archaeologists, Wester…
Aberrant Radiocarbon Dates on an Inuit Arrowhead
Apparently aberrant radiocarbon dates on a Thule culture antler artefact lead to the conclusion that this tool was made of material that was already ancient at the time of manufacture. This finding documents a potential problem in the interpretation of radiocarbon dates on Arctic cultural materials
Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher
Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Gabriel's captain B privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher B took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. A few days after enduring the storm of 14 July 1576, Frobisher sighted the most easterly outlier of Arctic North America and for the first time England became aware of this vast northern region. Over the next three summers it would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for …
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The Beringian Crossroads
William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell. eds. Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. 360 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper
Prehistoric Arctic Peoples and Their Art
(1987). PREHISTORIC ARCTIC PEOPLES AND THEIR ART. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 5-14
Contact between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse
Historical and archaeological evidence relating to Norse activities in the New World early in the second millennium A.D. is reviewed, together with archaeological evidence relating to contemporaneous aboriginal occupations of the regions probably reached by the Norse. The Norse probably contacted Indian populations in southern Labrador and Newfoundland, Dorset Palaeoeskimos in northern Labrador, and Thule Eskimos in Greenland and perhaps in the e…
Individual Stylistic Variability in Independence I Stone Tool Assemblages from Port Refuge, N.W.T
Typological comparisons of stone tool assemblages have traditionally been seen as a means of assessing the relationships between components within the Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt). Excavation at Independence I components at Port Refuge, Devon Island, allows us to examine this assumption. These components consist of spatially discrete features, most of which appear to be the remains of single family dwellings occupied only once and for a sho…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
The discovery of a norse settlement in America. Excavations at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, 1961–1968
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Un-Dating the Canadian Arctic
While the C-14 Method of dating has perhaps been the most important tool ever developed for prehistorians, the results of this technique have not been an unmixed blessing. This is especially true in the far north where wood charcoal, the standard medium for C-14 determinations in most other areas, is only infrequently recovered. Other substances—bone, ivory, blubber, and skin from sea mammals; sod, grass, and peat; bone and antler from terrestria…
Paleoeskimo Occupations of Central and High Arctic Canada
Most of our knowledge regarding the Paleoeskimos of Arctic Canada is derived from the “core area” of Paleoeskimo occupation, a rough circle of some 1,000 km diameter including the coasts of Fury and Hecla Strait, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait. This is the area in which Dorset culture was first recognized, the source of most of our larger collections, and the area where continuity of development throughout the Paleoeskimo sequence has been demonst…
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
Labrador Eskimo Settlements of the Early Contact Period, by J. Garth Taylor
Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador
Comparison of Elevations of Archaeological Sites and Calculated Sea Levels in Arctic Canada
Based on a study of postglacial uplift in the Canadian Arctic, it has been proposed that relative emergence can be estimated if the age and elevation of late-glacial marine limits are known. This suggestion is used to construct 5 maps showing the amounts of relative sea level emergence since 4000, 3200, 2400, 1600 and 800 BP. The archaeological sequence of coastal arctic Canada has been artificially divided into 5 corresponding 800-year periods. …
Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archaeology
This paper contends that proponents of various forms of Indigenous Archaeology base their argument on a paradigm of Aboriginal essentialism ('Aboriginalism') that is derived from the long-discarded concept of Primitive Man. The development of Aboriginalism is explored as a mutually reinforcing process between Indigenous and Western scholars, based on evidence that is at best anecdotal. The adoption of this flawed concept by archaeologists, Wester…
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Contact between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse
Historical and archaeological evidence relating to Norse activities in the New World early in the second millennium A.D. is reviewed, together with archaeological evidence relating to contemporaneous aboriginal occupations of the regions probably reached by the Norse. The Norse probably contacted Indian populations in southern Labrador and Newfoundland, Dorset Palaeoeskimos in northern Labrador, and Thule Eskimos in Greenland and perhaps in the e…
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
Of Strawmen, Herrings, and Frustrated Expectations
The author argues that these critiques are based primarily on mistaken readings of his original article. He contends that Indigenous archaeology is a social project without a demonstrated intellectual foundation
Comparison of Elevations of Archaeological Sites and Calculated Sea Levels in Arctic Canada
Based on a study of postglacial uplift in the Canadian Arctic, it has been proposed that relative emergence can be estimated if the age and elevation of late-glacial marine limits are known. This suggestion is used to construct 5 maps showing the amounts of relative sea level emergence since 4000, 3200, 2400, 1600 and 800 BP. The archaeological sequence of coastal arctic Canada has been artificially divided into 5 corresponding 800-year periods. …
Labrador Eskimo Settlements of the Early Contact Period, by J. Garth Taylor
Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador
Un-Dating the Canadian Arctic
While the C-14 Method of dating has perhaps been the most important tool ever developed for prehistorians, the results of this technique have not been an unmixed blessing. This is especially true in the far north where wood charcoal, the standard medium for C-14 determinations in most other areas, is only infrequently recovered. Other substances—bone, ivory, blubber, and skin from sea mammals; sod, grass, and peat; bone and antler from terrestria…
Paleoeskimo Occupations of Central and High Arctic Canada
Most of our knowledge regarding the Paleoeskimos of Arctic Canada is derived from the “core area” of Paleoeskimo occupation, a rough circle of some 1,000 km diameter including the coasts of Fury and Hecla Strait, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait. This is the area in which Dorset culture was first recognized, the source of most of our larger collections, and the area where continuity of development throughout the Paleoeskimo sequence has been demonst…
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
The discovery of a norse settlement in America. Excavations at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, 1961–1968
Individual Stylistic Variability in Independence I Stone Tool Assemblages from Port Refuge, N.W.T
Typological comparisons of stone tool assemblages have traditionally been seen as a means of assessing the relationships between components within the Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt). Excavation at Independence I components at Port Refuge, Devon Island, allows us to examine this assumption. These components consist of spatially discrete features, most of which appear to be the remains of single family dwellings occupied only once and for a sho…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Contact between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse
Historical and archaeological evidence relating to Norse activities in the New World early in the second millennium A.D. is reviewed, together with archaeological evidence relating to contemporaneous aboriginal occupations of the regions probably reached by the Norse. The Norse probably contacted Indian populations in southern Labrador and Newfoundland, Dorset Palaeoeskimos in northern Labrador, and Thule Eskimos in Greenland and perhaps in the e…
Prehistoric Arctic Peoples and Their Art
(1987). PREHISTORIC ARCTIC PEOPLES AND THEIR ART. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 5-14
The Beringian Crossroads
William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell. eds. Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. 360 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher
Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Gabriel's captain B privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher B took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. A few days after enduring the storm of 14 July 1576, Frobisher sighted the most easterly outlier of Arctic North America and for the first time England became aware of this vast northern region. Over the next three summers it would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for …
Aberrant Radiocarbon Dates on an Inuit Arrowhead
Apparently aberrant radiocarbon dates on a Thule culture antler artefact lead to the conclusion that this tool was made of material that was already ancient at the time of manufacture. This finding documents a potential problem in the interpretation of radiocarbon dates on Arctic cultural materials
Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archaeology
This paper contends that proponents of various forms of Indigenous Archaeology base their argument on a paradigm of Aboriginal essentialism ('Aboriginalism') that is derived from the long-discarded concept of Primitive Man. The development of Aboriginalism is explored as a mutually reinforcing process between Indigenous and Western scholars, based on evidence that is at best anecdotal. The adoption of this flawed concept by archaeologists, Wester…
Of Strawmen, Herrings, and Frustrated Expectations
The author argues that these critiques are based primarily on mistaken readings of his original article. He contends that Indigenous archaeology is a social project without a demonstrated intellectual foundation
Ivory for the sea woman
Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology - 1
Commentary
The problems and goals noted in the papers comprising this volume are compared with those of North American archaeology. A more restricted framing of the concept of ‘archaeological ethics’ is suggested, together with a more mindful consideration of the social, economic and political implications of archaeological work and interpretation.Les problèmes et les objectifs soulevés dans les articles constituant ce volume sont comparés avec ceux que l'o…
The archaeological construction of aboriginality
This chapter argues that the Western concept of "Aboriginal" has very little to do with a history of colonization, but instead carries a significant weight of meaning derived from earlier European concepts of "primitive man". It also argues that archaeology has contributed significantly to the perpetuation of this perspective. The chapter focuses on the Inuit societies of Arctic Canada and Greenland, and discusses how views of Inuit history have …
In Memoriam
Archaeology (16 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · History (13 obras) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (13 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 obras) · Arctic (9 obras) · Geology (9 obras) · Oceanography (9 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · Oceanography (8 obras)