ABSTRACT
Jarvenpa and Brumbach, working with their extensive data and knowledge of the Chipewyan, provide significantly enhanced temporal resolution to the process of exploration, infilling, and residency of newly occupied landscapes. The combined historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic analytics suggest that several of the dimensions that relate to landscape marking, natural features, toponymies, historical events, and ritual or cosmological events and locations may be a phased process, over multiple generations, with each dimension implemented as appropriate landscape and regional knowledge accrues. The confluence of experience, historical event, place naming, mnemonics, and inter-generational transmission of knowledge is a complex set of variables with which to engage, or, as Aporta convincingly argues, are or may be a single construct for Inuit of Baffin Island. The artificial partitioning of landscape from historical events, ideology, cosmology, intentional and unintentional marking, and other perceptions of space, as well as the separation of the several dimensions, does injustice to the complexity and richness of hunter-gatherer worldview.
