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Archaeological Investigations in the Transitional Forest Zone: Northern Manitoba, Southern Keewatin, N.W.T. Ronald J. Nash. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, Winnipeg, 1975. ix + 189pp., illus. $6.75.

This study is the record of the results of a developing research program in a remote and difficult geographic region. Five field seasons, beginning in 1965 and terminating in 1971, provided the raw data for the first major archaeological research program carried out by the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. Dr. Nash was the first full-time curator of anthropology at this museum, long established as the provincial museum, but revitalized in 1970 when a new building and a program of research, exhibit, and public service were initiated. Nash's study took place within a developing multi-institutional framework of anthropological research interests in Manitoba during the 1960s. This framework had stressed exploration of untouched geographic areas (particularly the northern zone), investigation of environmental variation details, and examination of Athabaskan and Algonkian Indian culture. With his initial interests developing from this source, Nash's experience as a Ph.D. candidate at Calgary with Scotty MacNeish added a broad, comparative, and "Arctic" oriented flavor to his research attitudes. All of these background factors have been combined with an explicit and thoughtful effort to incorporate the latest and best of theoretical concerns within what was at root essentially a "pioneering" research goal. A summary of the contents of this volume is quite beyond the scope of this review. The book is primarily descriptive, the first of its 12 chapters being an "Introduction," the last being a "Summary and Conclusion," with the intervening ten chapters each being devoted to a particular "locality" of fieldwork in the transitional forest region studied. Each of the localities is presented in essentially a standard way, with an introductory statement, followed by a specification of the "archaeological investigations" carried out in the locality. This is followed by a statement about the "recent settlements"; a descriptive discussion of the "archaeological sites," including excavation and survey detail; a descriptive and often tabular presentation of the "artifacts" from the sites; and a final section labeled "interpretations and conclusions." Appropriate illustrations are included in each section of the chapter.