Using Computer Modelling and Virtual Reality to Explore the Ideological Dimensions of Thule Whalebone Architecture in Arctic Canada
Arctic archaeologists have long suspected that the whalebones used to construct semi-subterranean winter houses by Thule culture peoples were symbolically resonant. These assumptions are based on observations of the non-utilitarian use of jaw bones and crania in Thule house ruins, and ethnographic d...
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Language: | English |
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University of York
2005-09-01
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Series: | Internet Archaeology |
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Online Access: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue18/dawson_index.html |