Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone

I-X -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Scandinavia -- Agriculture, Inland Hunting, and Sea Hunting in the Western and Northern Region of the Baltic, 6000-2000 B.C. -- The Rock Carvings at Nämforsen, Ångermanland, Sweden, as a Problem of Maritime Adaptation and Circumpolar Interrelations -- Prehistoric Coastal Settlement on the Upper Bothnian Coast of Northern Sweden -- Use of Slate in the Circumpolar Region -- When and Why Did Occupational Specialization Begin at the Scandinavian North Coast? -- Maritime Adaptations in Northern Norway's Prehistory -- Circumpolar Adaptation Zones East-West and Cross-Economy Contacts North-South: an Outsider's Query, Especially on Ust'-Poluj -- PART TWO: NORTH PACIFIC AND BERING SEA -- Problems of the Origin of Ancient Sea Hunters Cultures in the Northern Pacific -- The Okhotsk Culture, a Maritime Culture of the Southern Okhotsk Sea Region -- Stability and Adaptability in the Evolution of Hunting Tools in Ancient Eskimo Cultures -- Coastal Adaptation and Cultural Change in Alaskan Eskimo Prehistory -- Aleut Adaptation and Evolution -- Technological Continuity and Change Within a Persistent Maritime Adaptation: Kodiak Island, Alaska -- Marine Transgressions and Cultural Adaptation: Preliminary Tests of an Environmental Model -- PART THREE: Northwest Atlantic -- Maritime Adaptation on the Northwestern Atlantic Coast -- Demography and Adaptations of Eighteenth-Century Eskimo Groups in Northern Labrador and Ungava -- PART FOUR: Comparative Studies -- Maritime Adaptations in Cold Archipelagoes: An Analysis of Environment and Culture in the Aleutian and Other Island Chains -- A Comparative Approach to Northern Maritime Adaptations -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects