William W Fitzhugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 87731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William W Fitzhugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | William W |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzhugh |
| SIGNATURE | FITZHUGH W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Natalia V. Fedorova (1949 – 2024)
Proteomics identify bowhead whale muscle tissue and baleen in cinder residues at a 16th c. Basque whaling site
Réginald Auger
Light Production by Ceramic Using Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Circum-Baltic
Artificial illumination is a fundamental human need. Burning wood and other materials usually in hearths and fireplaces extended daylight hours, whilst the use of flammable substances in torches offered light on the move. It is increasingly understood that pottery played a role in light production. In this study, we focus on ceramic oval bowls, made and used primarily by hunter-gatherer-fishers of the circum-Baltic over a c. 2000 year period begi…
From adaptation to niche construction
Horse sacrifice and butchery in Bronze Age Mongolia
Paradise Gained, Lost, and Regained
The long-contested question of the Inuit occupation of the Quebec Lower North Shore has been illuminated by excavations at five 17th–18th-century sod-house villages. Few organic artifacts survive, and the preserved material culture is almost entirely of European artifacts or materials refashioned into Inuit forms. Faunal assemblages indicate winter occupations. Hare Harbor represents a departure from other settlements in having been an Inuit-Basq…
Mongolian Deer Stones, European Menhirs, and Canadian Arctic Inuksuit
The Tuvaaluk and Torngat archaeological projects
In the late 1970s, two large, multi-disciplinary, multi-year archaeological programs were initiated along the coasts of northern Labrador and Ungava in northern Quebec. Both envisioned a new model for Arctic archaeology that integrated archaeology, ethnography, environmental studies, earth sciences, and informatics. The Tuvaaluk research program was directed by Patrick Plumet at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Torngat Archaeological …
The Inuit archaeology of the Quebec Lower North Shore
This paper summarizes a decade of archaeological research demonstrating evidence for periods of year-round Inuit occupation of the Quebec Lower North Shore in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Excavations at several winter villages replicate settlement patterns at sod house sites in central Labrador, including continuation of a traditional Inuit subsistence and domestic economy while incorporating European materials and artifacts. Finds at …
Les projets archéologiques Tuvaaluk et Torngat
À la fin des années 1970, deux grands programmes multidisciplinaires devant durer plusieurs années ont été lancés le long des côtes du nord du Labrador et de l'Ungava au nord du Québec. Tous deux envisageaient un nouveau modèle d'archéologie arctique alliant l'archéologie, l'ethnographie, les études environnementales, les sciences de la Terre et l'informatique. Le programme de recherche Tuvaaluk était dirigé par Patrick Plumet de l'Université du …
Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain. A Personal Account
Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain. A Personal Account. By Ole Crumlin-Pedersen. Maritime Culture of the North, 3, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde. 2010. ISBN 978–87-85180–05-6 (Ha
"Call Me "Tiger
William W. Fitzhugh William W. Fitzhugh, Arctic Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20852-7012; fitzhugh{at}si.edu
Mapping Ritual Landscapes in Bronze Age Mongolia and Beyond
Elmer Harp Jr. (1913–2009)
Stone Shamans and Flying Deer of Northern Mongolia
William W. Fitzhugh William W. Fitzhugh, Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Natural History Building, 10th and Constitution, NW, Department of Anthropology, MRC112 Washington, D.C. 20560–0112
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development, physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome. We also present an initial analysis of the data, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence.
Ainu
Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and smaller far northern islands. Hundreds of photographs and paintings, mostly in excellent quality color, show a wide variety of Ainu people, as …
Biogeographical Archaeology in the Eastern North American Arctic
Anthropology of the North Pacific Rim
culture, its transitions, and modernization. In the late 1950s, he became interested in prehistoric cultural relations in the North Pacific and Arctic, and since then has made several trips to Northeast and Northwest Siberia. The results of his research have appeared in numerous monographs-notably Ancient
Richard H. Jordan 1946-1991
of anthropology at the
In Memoriam
Late Deglaciation of the Central Labrador Coast and Its Implications for the Age of Glacial Lakes Naskaupi and McLean and for Prehistory
The age of the marine limit and associated deglaciation has been estimated from relative sea-level curves for the Hopedale and Nain areas of the central Labrador coast as approximately 7600 ± 200 and 8500 ± 200 yr ago, respectively. These ages indicate that the ice margin remained on the coast for up to 3000 yr longer than previously estimated. Because the central coast is due east of glacial lakes Naskaupi and McLean, the earliest the lakes coul…
Crossroads of Continents
Crossroads of Continents
Crossroads of Continents
Cultures in Contact
Biogeographical Archaeology in the Eastern North American Arctic
Preliminary Culture History of Nain, Labrador
Preliminary results of the second Smithsonian field season in Nain, Labrador are described. The area surveyed lies at the boundary between arctic and subarctic environments on the central Labrador coast and has been occupied intermittently by Indians for more than 6,000 years and by Inuit (Eskimo) for the past 4,000 years. Six major cultural groups, some with several chronological subdivisions, have been recognized, and new geographic limits of c…
Ground Slates in the Scandinavian Younger Stone Age with Reference to Circumpolar Maritime Adaptations
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 archaeologic…
Mongolian Deer Stones, European Menhirs, and Canadian Arctic Inuksuit
The Utilization of Rare Earth Element Concentrations for the Characterization of Soapstone Quarries
Anthropology in the Arctic
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
The Inuit archaeology of the Quebec Lower North Shore
This paper summarizes a decade of archaeological research demonstrating evidence for periods of year-round Inuit occupation of the Quebec Lower North Shore in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Excavations at several winter villages replicate settlement patterns at sod house sites in central Labrador, including continuation of a traditional Inuit subsistence and domestic economy while incorporating European materials and artifacts. Finds at …
The Drafting of Neutral Aliens by the United States
The Alien Registration Division of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has announced that there are 695,363 alien Italians in the United States and 314,715 alien Germans. The census of 1940 indicated over eleven million white inhabitants born in a foreign country residing in the United States, and a recent release shows that about 65% of these became naturalized citizens.1 It can be calculated, therefore, that we have in this country, excl…
From adaptation to niche construction
Horse sacrifice and butchery in Bronze Age Mongolia
Stone Shamans and Flying Deer of Northern Mongolia
William W. Fitzhugh William W. Fitzhugh, Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Natural History Building, 10th and Constitution, NW, Department of Anthropology, MRC112 Washington, D.C. 20560–0112
Inua
the earth.For four days the first man lay coiled lip ------- in the pod of a beach pea.On the fifth, he burst forth, falling to the ground, and stood up, a full- grown man.Feeling unpleasant, he stooped and drank from a pool of water, then felt better.Look- ing up, he saw a dark object approaching with a waving motion until it stopped just in front of him.It was a raven.Raven stared intently at man, raised one wing, and pushed up his beak, like a…
Paradise Gained, Lost, and Regained
The long-contested question of the Inuit occupation of the Quebec Lower North Shore has been illuminated by excavations at five 17th–18th-century sod-house villages. Few organic artifacts survive, and the preserved material culture is almost entirely of European artifacts or materials refashioned into Inuit forms. Faunal assemblages indicate winter occupations. Hare Harbor represents a departure from other settlements in having been an Inuit-Basq…
The Drafting of Neutral Aliens by the United States
The Alien Registration Division of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has announced that there are 695,363 alien Italians in the United States and 314,715 alien Germans. The census of 1940 indicated over eleven million white inhabitants born in a foreign country residing in the United States, and a recent release shows that about 65% of these became naturalized citizens.1 It can be calculated, therefore, that we have in this country, excl…
Ground Slates in the Scandinavian Younger Stone Age with Reference to Circumpolar Maritime Adaptations
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 archaeologic…
Archaeology
Environmental Factors in the Evolution of Dorset Culture
Despite continued attention from archaeologists the origin of Dorset culture in the Eastern Arctic remains a persistent problem in northern prehistory. The transition from late Pre-Dorset to early Dorset culture is marked by a relatively rapid and consistent typological shift throughout a large geographic area at between about 1000 and 800 B.C. Although hampered by a distinct paucity of information, available chronological and distributional data…
Paleoeskimo Occupations of the Labrador Coast
Paleoeskimo archaeology has a peculiar history in that it is best known by its more distinctive regional and chronological variants. Thus, we have had rather full reports from such edge-areas as Greenland (Knuth 1952; Larsen and Meldgaard 1958), Southampton Island (Collins 1956a, 1956b, 1957), and Newfoundland (Wintemberg 1939, 1940; Harp 1964). More recent fieldwork at Igloolik (Meldgaard 1960b, 1962), and full publication from northwestern Queb…
Preliminary Culture History of Nain, Labrador
Preliminary results of the second Smithsonian field season in Nain, Labrador are described. The area surveyed lies at the boundary between arctic and subarctic environments on the central Labrador coast and has been occupied intermittently by Indians for more than 6,000 years and by Inuit (Eskimo) for the past 4,000 years. Six major cultural groups, some with several chronological subdivisions, have been recognized, and new geographic limits of c…
Arctic Museum Training Workshop at Smithsonion
America BC Reference
Preliminary Report on the Torngat Archaeological Project
The Torngat Archaeological Project conducted two seasons of field work in northern Labrador in 1977-78. Surveys by boat and ground crews ranging from Nain to the Button Islands located nearly 350 archaeological sites and gathered data from many geological and botanical stations. Cultures represented in this region include all of the known arctic groups (Pre-Dorset, Dorset, Thule, and Labrador Inuit) and northern Indian cultures (Maritime Archaic,…
The Utilization of Rare Earth Element Concentrations for the Characterization of Soapstone Quarries
Inua
the earth.For four days the first man lay coiled lip ------- in the pod of a beach pea.On the fifth, he burst forth, falling to the ground, and stood up, a full- grown man.Feeling unpleasant, he stooped and drank from a pool of water, then felt better.Look- ing up, he saw a dark object approaching with a waving motion until it stopped just in front of him.It was a raven.Raven stared intently at man, raised one wing, and pushed up his beak, like a…
Anthropology in the Arctic
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
Cultures in Contact
Late Deglaciation of the Central Labrador Coast and Its Implications for the Age of Glacial Lakes Naskaupi and McLean and for Prehistory
The age of the marine limit and associated deglaciation has been estimated from relative sea-level curves for the Hopedale and Nain areas of the central Labrador coast as approximately 7600 ± 200 and 8500 ± 200 yr ago, respectively. These ages indicate that the ice margin remained on the coast for up to 3000 yr longer than previously estimated. Because the central coast is due east of glacial lakes Naskaupi and McLean, the earliest the lakes coul…
Crossroads of Continents
Crossroads of Continents
In Memoriam
Anthropology of the North Pacific Rim
culture, its transitions, and modernization. In the late 1950s, he became interested in prehistoric cultural relations in the North Pacific and Arctic, and since then has made several trips to Northeast and Northwest Siberia. The results of his research have appeared in numerous monographs-notably Ancient
Richard H. Jordan 1946-1991
of anthropology at the
Biogeographical Archaeology in the Eastern North American Arctic
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development, physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome. We also present an initial analysis of the data, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence.
Ainu
Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and smaller far northern islands. Hundreds of photographs and paintings, mostly in excellent quality color, show a wide variety of Ainu people, as …
Stone Shamans and Flying Deer of Northern Mongolia
William W. Fitzhugh William W. Fitzhugh, Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Natural History Building, 10th and Constitution, NW, Department of Anthropology, MRC112 Washington, D.C. 20560–0112
Elmer Harp Jr. (1913–2009)
Mapping Ritual Landscapes in Bronze Age Mongolia and Beyond
Geography (25 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 works) · History (21 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (17 works) · Geology (14 works) · History (13 works) · Oceanography (13 works) · Arctic (11 works) · Geology (11 works)