<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robert W. Park</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Douglas R. Stenton</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Archaeological Approaches to Culture Contacts in the Eastern Arctic</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Banff</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Given the Arctic's remoteness, it's fascinating that archaeologists are increasingly perceiving it as a locus of complex interactions between people belonging to very different cultures: the Paleoeskimo Dorset, the Neoeskimo Thule, and the Norse Vikings. Evidence for such interactions has been derived from instances of apparent exchange of diagnostic objects between cultures, instances of apparent acculturation between cultures, and even from the absence of instances of acculturation or exchange. In this paper we will discuss the difficulty of unambiguously identifying evidence for contact or for lack of contact, and then evaluate some of the recently published evidence, especially radiocarbon dates.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>