Long term adaptations among Arctic hunter-gatherers

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This study examines the role of social mechanisms in long-term environmental adaptations among Arctic hunter-gatherers, using archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data from the North Bay (Lake Harbour) region of southern Baffin Island, to test hypotheses concerning Inuit responses to the effects of climatic changes on distribution, abundance and predictability of major subsistence resources, through the Thule culture and Inuit occupations from AD 1100 to the present century.