@article {9779,
	title = {Demography and the Reconstruction of Social Organization from Thule Wintering Sites in Arctic Canada},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {22},
	year = {1999},
	pages = {115-126},
	abstract = {<p>The coastal wintering sites created throughout the Canadian Arctic and Greenland by the people of the Thule culture are increasingly attracting attention from archaeologists interested in exploring questions of social organization among Arctic hunter-gatherers. The sites vary considerably in size, consisting of anywhere from one to over 60 discrete semisubterranean houses. The larger sites are often assumed to have been aggregation sites with a large resident population, analogous to the large winter aggregations documented among the Inuit by explorers and ethnographers. This paper argues that the criteria presently used to evaluate the size of the resident population at Thule winter sites - the number of winter houses; their architecture; and the degree to which they cluster together - can plausibly be expected to vary both synchronically and diachronically, and are therefore inadequate for making demographic inferences without good chronological control.</p>},
	author = {Robert W. Park}
}
