THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

At the end of the first millennium AD the Eastern Canadian Arctic became significantly warmer and the Dorset people, a nomadic society of hunter-gatherer-fishermen, had to hastily adapt to this sudden climate change. Shamanism appears to have become more important in this context of adaptation and s...

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Main Author: Arsenault,Daniel
Language:English
Published: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 2013
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-68942013000200003
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