A GIS approach to ancestral Wabanaki canoe routes and travel times

dc.contributor.advisorHrynick, Gabriel
dc.contributor.advisorBlair, Susan
dc.contributor.authorShaw, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:42:21Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:42:21Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
dc.description.abstractA GIS-based approach to modeling ancestral Wabanaki canoe routes and travel times during the Maritime Woodland period (3150–550 BP) of prehistory is developed in this thesis using least-cost analysis (LCA). These results are integrated into regional discussions of hunter-gatherer mobility, seasonal transhumance, and pre-contact territoriality, with an emphasis on how seasonal and annual variability in riverine paddling conditions may have impacted route selection and travel times between Maritime Woodland period archaeological sites. This thesis concludes that regional models of hunter-gatherer travel practices should account for the ways Indigenous peoples reacted dynamically to contingency in environmental conditions, as well as the ways riverine paddling conditions impacted the social landscape on short time scales.
dc.description.copyright© Christopher E. Shaw 2018
dc.description.noteM.A. University of New Brunswick, Department of Anthropology, 2018.
dc.formattext/xml
dc.format.extentxv, 177 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.oclcOCLC# 1356827696
dc.identifier.otherThesis 10271
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/14358
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineAnthropology
dc.subject.lcshGeographic information systems -- Canada -- Maps.
dc.subject.lcshAbenaki Indians -- Boats -- Canada.
dc.subject.lcshCanoes and canoeing -- Canada -- Maps.
dc.subject.lcshLandscape archaeology -- Geographic information systems -- Canada.
dc.titleA GIS approach to ancestral Wabanaki canoe routes and travel times
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Arts
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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