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| Dr. Stephen loring |
Stephen Loring has been conducting
archaeological and ethnohistorical
research in Labrador for over thirty years.
One recent direction of his work has
focused on trying to substantiate oral
Innu and Inuit traditions and Hudson
Bay Company records of Grizzlies in
Nunavik into recent times.
Members of our 2005 recon expedition
saw an associated species also thought to
be extirpated in the region, the wolverine.
Click on image to left for full view
archaeological and ethnohistorical
research in Labrador for over thirty years.
One recent direction of his work has
focused on trying to substantiate oral
Innu and Inuit traditions and Hudson
Bay Company records of Grizzlies in
Nunavik into recent times.
Members of our 2005 recon expedition
saw an associated species also thought to
be extirpated in the region, the wolverine.
Click on image to left for full view
While the George River wilderness
was a new and wonderful experience
for most of our crew, there have been
people calling it home, not
wilderness for thousands of years.
Click on image at right for full view
was a new and wonderful experience
for most of our crew, there have been
people calling it home, not
wilderness for thousands of years.
Click on image at right for full view
Stephen Loring with empty murre
egg shells collected from the base
of a cliff at Karab Cove on Agattu
Island in the western Aleutians ,
1995. “Every afternoon, sure as
clockwork, a gang of ravens would
fly down from the interior of the
island to wreck havoc on the
murre rookery where they would
eat their fill of eggs and fledglings
before flying back to their own
nests in the mountains each and
every one of them with a murre
egg jabbed on the end of their
beaks.”
egg shells collected from the base
of a cliff at Karab Cove on Agattu
Island in the western Aleutians ,
1995. “Every afternoon, sure as
clockwork, a gang of ravens would
fly down from the interior of the
island to wreck havoc on the
murre rookery where they would
eat their fill of eggs and fledglings
before flying back to their own
nests in the mountains each and
every one of them with a murre
egg jabbed on the end of their
beaks.”
Anthropologist and Arctic Archaeologist;
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution.