Loring, Stephen
Museum Anthropologist/Arctic Archaeologist
Loring, Stephen
Museum Anthropologist/Arctic Archaeologist
Arctic and sub-Arctic ethnohistory and archaeology; Labrador; public policy in the circumpolar north; repatriation philosophy, community archaeology, indigenous property rights
Geographic Focus
Background And Education
Education And Training
Awards And Honors
- Lifetime Achievement Award , conferred by World Archaeological Congress , 2013
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Loring, Stephen. 2022. "A Note on Shell Island-1 (GcBi-11) and Some Thoughts on the Labrador Ramah Chert Trade." Provincial Archaeology Office 2021 Archaeology Review, 20 74–80. 2022
- Jenkinson, Anthony, Loring, Stephen, and Arbour, Chelsee. 2021. "Tshiash Innut at Kamestastin and Sheshatshit, Tshikapisk Archaeology 2020 Research." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review, 19 105–123. 2021
- Loring, Stephen, Arbour, Chelsee, Ashini, Napes, and Jenkinson, Anthony. 2018. "Pour ramener l’été: À la recherché d’une concordance entre l’histoire innue et l’archéologie." Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, XLVIII, (3) 41–54. 2018
- Hennessy, Kate, Lyons, Natasha, Loring, Stephen, Arnold, Charles, Joe, Mervin, Elias, Albert, and Pokiak, James. 2013. "The Inuvialuit Living History Project: Digital Return as the Forging of Relationships Between Institutions, People, and Data." Museum Anthropology Review, 7, (1-2) 44–73. 2013
- Loring, Stephen and Gero, Joan. 2012. "The Evolution of Happiness." Archaeologies, 8, (3) 376–402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-012-9208-x. 2012
- Egeland, G. M., Ponce, Rafael, Bloom, Nicolas S., Knecht, Rick, Loring, Stephen, and Middaugh, John P. 2009. "Hair methylmercury levels of mummies of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska." Environmental research, 109, (3) 281–286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2008.11.004. 2009
- Loring, Stephen and Arendt, Beatrix. 2009. "“…They Gave Hebron, The City of Refuge…” (Joshua 21:13): An Archaeological Reconnaissance at Hebron, Labrador." Journal of the North Atlantic, 2 33–56. 2009
- Loring, Stephen and Arthur, Spiess. 2007. "Further documentation supporting the former existence of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in northern Quebec-Labrador." Arctic, 60, (1) 7–16. 2007
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Chapter
- Loring, Stephen. 2017. "To the uttermost ends of the earth...Ramah chert in time and space." In Ramah Chert: a Lithic Odyssey. Curtis, Jenneth E. and Desrosiers, Pierre, editors. 169–219. Westmount, Quebec: Avataq Cultural Institute. 2017
- Loring, Stephen. 2010. "Foreword." In Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition. May, Sally, editor. xi–xx. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira. 2010
- Loring, Stephen and Siegal-Causey, Douglas. 2010. "Short-tailed Albatross (Diomedea [Phoebastrial] albatrus)." In The People at the End of the World: the Western Aleutians Project and the Archaeology of Shemya. Corbett, Debra, West, Dixie, and Lefevre, Christine, editors. 99–105. Anchorage: Alaska Anthropological Association. 2010
- Loring, Stephen. 2010. "Tuktuyaaqtuuq "Where the Caribou Cross": the Arctic and Subarctic." In Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Colelctions of the National Museum of the American Indian. Ganteaume, Cecile, editor. 240–256. New York: Harper Collins/Smithsonian Institution. 2010
- Loring, Stephen. 2009. "An Appreciation of “Something Fiercely Desirable”." In Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882–1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner Together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge. Heyes, Scott A. and Helgen, Kristofer M., editors. xxv-xxvi. 2009
- Loring, Stephen. 2009. "From Tent to Trading Post and Back Again - Smithsonian Anthropology in Nunavut, Nunavik, Nitassinan, and Nunatsiavut: The Changing IPY Agenda, 1882–2007." In Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science. Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., editors. 115–128. In IPY. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.10. 2009
- Loring, Stephen. 2008. "At home in the wilderness: the Mushuau Innu and caribou." In The return of caribou to Ungava. Bergerud, A. T., Luttich, Stuart N., and Camps, Lodewijk, editors. 123–134. Montreal: McGill-Queen's. 2008
- Loring, Stephen. 2008. "The Wind Blows Everything off the Ground: New Provisions and New Directions in Archaeological Research in the North." In Opening Archaeology: Repatriation's Impact on Contemporary Research and Practice. Killion, Thomas W., editor. 181–194. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. 2008
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
