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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Aleut"”.
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Surname Distributions, Origins, and their Association with Y-chromosome Markers in the Aleutian Archipelago
… haplogroups found in Native communities from the Aleutian Archipelago. The project's underlying hypothesis is that surnames and Y-chromosome haplogroups are correlated in the Aleutian Islands because both are paternally inherited markers. Using 732 surnames, Lasker's Coefficient of relationship …
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The role of ecological barriers in the development of cultural boundaries during the later Holocene of the central Alaska peninsula
… in the separate development of modern Eskimo and Aleut populations and their distinctive cultural traditions. Distal volcanic effects include ash fall, sulfuric acid rain, and sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere. The ash fall and sulfuric acid rain from the Aniakchak eruption heavily …
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Unangax̂ Mummies as Whalers: A Multidisciplinary Contextualization of Human Mummification in the Aleutian Islands
This thesis provides an analysis of Unangax̂ (Aleut) mummification in the context of their other methods of body deposition. It explores the hypothesis that whalers and their families belonged to an ancient shamanistic whaling complex that existed throughout coastal regions that practiced whaling. …