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Ocean Optimism Video - Slow Down For Right Whales
Whaling, beginning in the 1600s, killed thousands of North Atlantic right whales...
July 2010
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Archaeologists Investigate an Early Whaling Community
For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologist, William Fitzhugh, has been...
July 2010
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Inuit Soapstone Pot
For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologists have been investigating an...
July 2010
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Early Eskimo Point
About 2,500 years ago cold climate brought the first Inuit peoples into the Gulf of...
July 2010
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Ancient Maritime Archaic Indian Point
Smithsonian surveys along the lower north shore of Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada...
July 2010
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Underwater Archaeological Stratigraphy
An underwater archaeological stratigraphy reveals the different levels of soil in...
July 2010
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Archaeological Site Map of Hare Harbor
The Arctic Studies Center's excavation site map of Hare Harbor maps some of the...
July 2010
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Fragment of a European Bellarmine Jug
A 2011 excavation led by the Arctic Studies Center uncovered this fragment of...
July 2010
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Excavation of an Inuit House
Excavations between 2002 through 2011 at Hare Harbor have shown that this site was...
July 2010
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Map of Early European Whaling Region
For over a decade scientists have been investigating an early European whaling site...
July 2010
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Whalers in the early 1800s
This illustration shows whalers of the early 1800s with their highly profitable...
July 2010
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Harpooning Whales
Whalers harpoon a right whale in this 1856 Currier & Ives print....
July 2010