William Irving (archaeologist)
William Irving (November 11, 1927 – November 25, 1987) was a Canadian archaeologist and scholar of the prehistory of the North American Arctic. He was internationally recognized as a leading scholar of the historical Inuit cultures of north Alaska. Irving was born in Toronto, Canada.[1] He received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1964. His scholarly work includes a study of the early peopling of the Americas. He discovered and named the Arctic Small Tool tradition.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Julig, Patrick. "WILLIAM NATHANIEL IRVING (1927-1987)" (PDF).
- ^ Odess, Daniel. The Arctic Small Tool Tradition Fifty Years On. Alaska Journal of Anthropology. p. 5.