Ha! Thought you might enjoy that. Frankly my own frustration has me looking speculatively at bottles lately too. Would be easier if not for frustrations south as well, eh?

Actually got into med anthro via arch and physical so not so distant, but I will have to think about the Mac Delta thing. Is there something in particular your friend is looking for? Sadly the area isn't well studied and there aren't many one-source options that come to mind for general overviews.

As a starter: this is a really good book about some recent Mackenzie Delta area history: https://umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol10/no14/reindeerherders.html

Not sure what he's looking for exactly. He's a Highschool friend that did a general call for help on FB. Normally I would ignore it (outside my field), but your background in Northern regions came to mind.

I suspect he's (unexpectedly) getting dropped into the region to manage a dig and needs to get up to speed.

Ah. Well then he probably has more up to date and accessible resources than I do anyway. But I'll think a bit and let you know if anything comes to mind.

Thought that might be the case, but figured I'd ask.

As an aside, I have a (hobby) interest in agriculture. I've added that book to my reading list. Thanks.

So I thought a bit, and it seems to me that I don't think I have ever come across a "one stop shopping" survey of the McKenzie Delta specifically. There are some interesting books on the Thule migration, which forms the foundation of the Inuvialuit and Siglit of the Mac Delta area, but the titles I would have come across are quite old. I would hope there has been some new information in the interim. Good places to look are the Arctic Institute holdings at UCalgary:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/proe/propubname/au+arnold,+c.d.+and+rt+any+p?COMMANDSEARCH&DISPLAY=Charles%20Arnold

There are a few articles there that will have the right kinds of information and references in them. I should think your friend has probably already been there though.

Maybe the best option, though I can't recommend it since I haven't read it, is this Oxford Handbook that came up when I was poking around with keyword searches to see if it shook anything loose in my memory:
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199766956-e-30

It's by Charles Arnold though, and he's basically THE expert on the area, so I should think it's a good survey.

Oh and glad the caribou one was of interest - I'm very interested in sustainable industry options for the Arctic, and anything that supports local agriculture catches my eye.

(oh, anything by Emile Petitot will be worth reading too, though it's very dated - however his observations of Siglit life in the 19th C are an important model for interpreting sites. I believe his main work was republished in the 70s, not sure if there's been anything since. I had to read it for some papers back in undergrad. But again your friend is probably already familiar.)

I'll ask him.

I don't know what archeology is like, but I got the impression this is like half my IT gigs as a consultant: you are brought in because you are an expert in Project Management, or Requirements Validation; not because you understand the intricacies of Healthcare, or Finance, or Telecommunications. For the specific industry, you are expected to do a lot of late night reading.

I think he has managed a lot of digs, but never in that region.