Open AccessDiscovery of the Skull of a Grizzly Bear in Labrador
Author(s) -
Arthur Spiess,
Steven Cox
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
arctic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1923-1245
pISSN - 0004-0843
DOI - 10.14430/arctic2804
Subject(s) - ursus , grizzly bears , bay , geography , archaeology , skull , population , geology , paleontology , demography , sociology
The skull of a small, young adult grizzly bear was discovered in the course of archaeological excavation of an early historic Eskimo house in northern Labrador. This discovery confirms the rumoured presence of Ursus arctm in Labra- dor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is suggested that the Labrador grizzly represents an eastward extension of the barren-ground grizzly population across the mouth of Hudson Bay.
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