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THIS volume deals with the archæology of the North Pacific in two parts. The first deals with the area generally and with the inhabitants of different regions severally—Japan, the Ainu, Kamschatka, the Eskimo of four different regions, and the Aleutian Islands and British Columbia. In the second part the author takes some fifteen or sixteen implements of common use and widespread occurrence, analyses the various types, and shows their distribution on sketch maps. The Eskimo in particular afford a remarkable instance of an extremely wide distribution of material types, due in part to their possession of a common language and culture, in part to the extremely small and scattered population using the artefacts in question. Life in the North Pacific is necessarily dependent on a highly specialized material culture in which the nature of every tool is strictly determined by the physical environment.
Archéologie du Pacifique-Nord
Matériaux pour l'étude des relations entre les peuples riverains d‘Asie et d‘Amérique. Par Dr. André Leroi-Gourhan. (Université de Paris : Travaux et mémoires de l‘Institut d‘ethnologie, Tome 47.) Pp. xviii + 542. (Paris : Institut d‘Ethnologie, 1946.) 700 francs.
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HUTTON, J. Archéologie du Pacifique - Nord . Nature 161, 545 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161545b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161545b0