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Papers by Ulla Odgaard
COMPARATIVE GUTS. Exploring the Inside of the Body through Time and Space, 2024
The Inuit culture is deeply intertwined with their environment and understanding of the natural w... more The Inuit culture is deeply intertwined with their environment and understanding of the natural world. As skilled hunters, they relied on sea mammals for sustenance and utilized every part of the animal for various purposes, including food, clothing, and tools. Similarly, their knowledge of the human body was extensive, gained through the dissection of animals and, in tragic circumstances, humans. This understanding extended to spiritual beliefs, where the interior of the body held significance not just in life but also in death and the afterlife. Shamans, possessing special insight and inner light, could peer into both the physical and spiritual realms, including the bodies of others and the domain of spirits and the deceased. Breath, symbolizing life, was paramount, with the disappearance of breath marking death. This interconnectedness between the physical and spiritual worlds was reflected in beliefs surrounding aggressive beings and protective measures such as the rare birth in a caul or the use of gutskin-anoraks in ritual and myth.
Études inuit, Jul 15, 2005
Foyers et habitations des Paléoesquimaux Le présent article propose une approche méthodologique c... more Foyers et habitations des Paléoesquimaux Le présent article propose une approche méthodologique concernant l'étude des foyers en général. Les foyers de la tradition paléoesquimaude sont souvent assez bien conservés, ce qui permet d'interpréter les processus de combustion utilisés et comment ces derniers affectaient le climat à l'intérieur de l'habitation. Pour obtenir ces informations, il est important de recueillir des données concernant les pierres fracturées par le feu. Les Paléoesquimaux utilisaient une pyrotechnologie versatile, s'ajustant aux conditions les plus extrêmes dans des régions où l'accès au bois de chauffage était limité. Une reconstitution expérimentale combinée à des calculs de la combustion hypothétique des matières grasses démontre qu'il était possible pour les Indépendanciens I de l'Arctique septentrional de passer confortablement l'hiver dans des tentes. Enfin, les aspects symboliques des foyers sont abordés dans le texte.
University Press of Colorado eBooks, May 30, 2018
Elsevier eBooks, 2017
Greenland and the eastern part of the Canadian Arctic were populated in the Holocene by three mai... more Greenland and the eastern part of the Canadian Arctic were populated in the Holocene by three main human groups, the bearers of the cultures of Independence I, Saqqaq, and pre-Dorset, who appeared in the region of the Gulf of Nares c.5000 BP. These represented different types of adaptations close to the culture Denby (Alaska) and the Arctic Small Tool tradition. The pre-Dorset culture developed at the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. One of the Paleoeskimo groups, the bearers of the culture Saqqaq, settled in the western part of the island, while the people of Independence I invaded the northernmost part and settled in the Peary Land. It seems that migrations were connected with the spread of musk oxen. The Independence I persisted in Greenland only during several centuries. Paleoeskimo groups inhabited this land for 3500 years and seem to have disappeared when the bearers of the Thule culture (the ancestors of modern Inuit) invaded this land around AD 1200.
Rencontres internationals d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'Antibes, 2007
Archaeolingua Alapítvány, 2007
Based on archaeological fieldwork in an inland area in West Greenland, this paper will discuss qu... more Based on archaeological fieldwork in an inland area in West Greenland, this paper will discuss questions about Greenland hunting rights and hunting ethics which arose during our work and which seem to constitute dilemmas. Settlement patterns and bone analyses from Thule culture sites, but also ethno-archaeological observations and interviews with modern hunters, form the basis of this discussion.
COMPARATIVE GUTS. Exploring the Inside of the Body through Time and Space, 2024
The Inuit culture is deeply intertwined with their environment and understanding of the natural w... more The Inuit culture is deeply intertwined with their environment and understanding of the natural world. As skilled hunters, they relied on sea mammals for sustenance and utilized every part of the animal for various purposes, including food, clothing, and tools. Similarly, their knowledge of the human body was extensive, gained through the dissection of animals and, in tragic circumstances, humans. This understanding extended to spiritual beliefs, where the interior of the body held significance not just in life but also in death and the afterlife. Shamans, possessing special insight and inner light, could peer into both the physical and spiritual realms, including the bodies of others and the domain of spirits and the deceased. Breath, symbolizing life, was paramount, with the disappearance of breath marking death. This interconnectedness between the physical and spiritual worlds was reflected in beliefs surrounding aggressive beings and protective measures such as the rare birth in a caul or the use of gutskin-anoraks in ritual and myth.
Études inuit, Jul 15, 2005
Foyers et habitations des Paléoesquimaux Le présent article propose une approche méthodologique c... more Foyers et habitations des Paléoesquimaux Le présent article propose une approche méthodologique concernant l'étude des foyers en général. Les foyers de la tradition paléoesquimaude sont souvent assez bien conservés, ce qui permet d'interpréter les processus de combustion utilisés et comment ces derniers affectaient le climat à l'intérieur de l'habitation. Pour obtenir ces informations, il est important de recueillir des données concernant les pierres fracturées par le feu. Les Paléoesquimaux utilisaient une pyrotechnologie versatile, s'ajustant aux conditions les plus extrêmes dans des régions où l'accès au bois de chauffage était limité. Une reconstitution expérimentale combinée à des calculs de la combustion hypothétique des matières grasses démontre qu'il était possible pour les Indépendanciens I de l'Arctique septentrional de passer confortablement l'hiver dans des tentes. Enfin, les aspects symboliques des foyers sont abordés dans le texte.
University Press of Colorado eBooks, May 30, 2018
Elsevier eBooks, 2017
Greenland and the eastern part of the Canadian Arctic were populated in the Holocene by three mai... more Greenland and the eastern part of the Canadian Arctic were populated in the Holocene by three main human groups, the bearers of the cultures of Independence I, Saqqaq, and pre-Dorset, who appeared in the region of the Gulf of Nares c.5000 BP. These represented different types of adaptations close to the culture Denby (Alaska) and the Arctic Small Tool tradition. The pre-Dorset culture developed at the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. One of the Paleoeskimo groups, the bearers of the culture Saqqaq, settled in the western part of the island, while the people of Independence I invaded the northernmost part and settled in the Peary Land. It seems that migrations were connected with the spread of musk oxen. The Independence I persisted in Greenland only during several centuries. Paleoeskimo groups inhabited this land for 3500 years and seem to have disappeared when the bearers of the Thule culture (the ancestors of modern Inuit) invaded this land around AD 1200.
Rencontres internationals d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'Antibes, 2007
Archaeolingua Alapítvány, 2007
Based on archaeological fieldwork in an inland area in West Greenland, this paper will discuss qu... more Based on archaeological fieldwork in an inland area in West Greenland, this paper will discuss questions about Greenland hunting rights and hunting ethics which arose during our work and which seem to constitute dilemmas. Settlement patterns and bone analyses from Thule culture sites, but also ethno-archaeological observations and interviews with modern hunters, form the basis of this discussion.