{"id":469,"date":"2017-06-30T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/?page_id=469"},"modified":"2017-07-21T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:23:09","slug":"ancestral-cultures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Adaptation for Survival<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-470 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers.jpg 287w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers-160x196.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/followers-240x294.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>Most Canadians have no knowledge of our sub-Arctic aboriginal cultures. These were nomadic hunter societies, compelled to intersect swift-moving herds of caribou over broad ranges, and left few signs of their presence. And yet these uncovered and surface remains have become keys to our understanding of how they survived this harsh environment.<\/p>\n<p>Let us look first at their Chronology, through 8000 years of adaption to biophysical change.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"\">\n\t<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"button__red button__red--solid\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/ancestral-cultures-and-tool-traits-2\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From Past to Present<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Barrenlands Cultures<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_hunt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_hunt.jpg 395w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_hunt-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_hunt-240x159.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_hunt-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/>Select from any era on our Chart a description of Barrenlands culture. Anecdotal records are few, and only begin with the arrival of European explorers and fur-traders. With the introduction of metal for tools and weapons, hunting methods changed radically, but did not initially displace the caribou&#8217;s importance to human survival. The artist drawings on this page are broad representations of these ancestral cultures, based upon the range and features of artifacts we can date to their presence.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 335px;\" width=\"439\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><strong>Culture<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\"><strong>Years Ago<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/historic-chipewyan-and-caribou-inuit\/\">Dene Chipewyan<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">Present-200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/taltheilei\/\">Late Taltheilei<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">200-1300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/taltheilei\/\">Middle Taltheilei<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">1300-1800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/taltheilei\/\">Early Taltheilei<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">1800-2450<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/taltheilei\/\">Earliest Taltheilei<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">2450-2600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/pre-dorset\/\">Pre-Dorset ASTt<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">2650-3540<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/shield-archaic\/\">Shield Archaic<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">3500-6500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 159px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/northern-plano\/\">Northern Plano<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 264px;\">7000-8000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 429px;\" colspan=\"2\">\u00a0For a Description of each Culture, select its Name<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Ethnographic Observations<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/band-herd-affiliation-and-herd-following\/\">Band-herd Affiliation and Herd Following<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-508 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_pound.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_pound.jpg 395w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_pound-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_pound-240x190.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/wp-content\/uploads\/caribou_pound-360x285.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/human-seasonal-nutrition-and-birth-spacing\/\">Human Seasonal Nutrition and Birth Spacing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rangifercentral\/barrenlands-prehistory\/ancestral-cultures\/hearne-drivelane\/\">Read Samuel Hearne&#8217;s account of a &#8220;deer pound&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Images are courtesy of Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism; artist: Larry Jamieson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaptation for Survival Most Canadians have no knowledge of our sub-Arctic aboriginal cultures. These were nomadic hunter societies, compelled to intersect swift-moving herds of caribou over broad ranges, and left few signs of their presence. And yet these uncovered and surface remains have become keys to our understanding of how they survived this harsh environment. 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