In 2012, a series of interviews was carried out with Greenlandic hunters (26 to 86 years old) on caribou hunting and utilization in central West Greenland. As recently as 1950 AD, almost all parts of the caribou were utilized intensively. In the following decades, numerous uses disappeared, and a few new ones were added. A few Greenlanders reported that they had experienced the utilization of parts of caribou during their childhood that they had not used in the last decades. The intensive use of fat and caribou hides disappeared, whereas the exploitation of caribou as a tourist attraction was new. A portion of the earlier pattern of caribou utilization would be visible in an archaeozoological investigation, however a significant part would remain undetectable.
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1 June 2013
Caribou hunting and utilization in West Greenland: Past and present variants
Kerstin Pasda
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Anthropozoologica
Vol. 48 • No. 1
June 2013
Vol. 48 • No. 1
June 2013
Archaeozoology
Archéozoologie
caribou utilization
ethnoarchaeology
ethnoarchéologie
Groenland occidental
utilisation du caribou