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W. Fitzhugh
William W. Fitzhugh
National Museum of Natural History, Arctic Studies Center
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William Fitzhugh
is a specialist in circumpolar anthropology and archeology who
has spent more than forty years studying and publishing on arctic
peoples and cultures in northern Canada, Alaska, Russia, Scandinavia,
and Mongolia. His archaeological and environmental research
has focused on the prehistory and paleoecology of northeastern
North America, especially the problem of Eskimo and Indian cultural
development across the forest-tundra boundary in Labrador, Baffin
Island, and Quebec. Broader aspects of his research feature
the evolution of northern maritime adaptations, circumpolar
culture contacts, cross-cultural studies, and acculturation
processes in the North. His research has been directed at archeological
studies of the arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher AD 1576-78
and the prehistory of the Russian Arctic. He is currently investigating
Asian influences on early Alaskan Eskimo culture and art through
fieldwork at Bronze Age sites in Mongolia and contributions
of early Basque voyages to the history of the New World. |
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