open access

https://doi.org/10.14943/105604

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/87918

Arctic Crashes : People and Animals in the Changing North edited by Igor Krupnik and Aron L. Crowell

日本語

2021-12-06

北海道大学大学院文学研究院考古学研究室

Bulletin of the Laboratory of Archaeology, Hokkaido University

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63-69

This book is the outcome of a Smithsonian Institution's collaborative research project titled as “Arctic people and animal crashes: human, climate and habitat agency in the Anthropocene" conducted from 2014 to 2016. Twenty-five papers contained in the book address the influence of crash, a sudden and large-scale decline of animal and plant population, to human beings in the Arctic and Subarctic using methodologies of archaeology, cultural anthropology, biology, ecology as well as indigenous perspectives. Through examinations of crash of caribou, sea mammal, and fish, this book reveals actual situations of crash, social change caused by a resource decrease, human impact to various spices, and the importance of observations by the indigenous peoples for better understanding of animal resources. This book is also suggestive for Japanese archaeology because they include several viewpoints disregarded in Japan. First, crash should be taken into account in archaeology, whereas relatively stable resource distribution has been presupposed in Japanese archaeology. Second, archaeologists should deal with animal and plant resources in order to approach to the relationship between human beings and natural environment although change in temperature and human population have drawn great attention in Japan. Third, archaeological materials can be studied for restoring not only history of human beings, but history of animals and plants. Finally, the oceanographic processes, a long-term change in animal behavior, phylogenetic analyses to reveal the past bottleneck of animal populations should be also actively introduced in future studies.

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2436-5874