Organization
Smithsonian Institution
Email
lorings@si.edu

Location

Washington , District of Columbia 20013
United States

Science Specialties

anthropology, archaeology, ethnohistory

Current Research

Labrador: archaeology and ethnohistory on Innu and Inuit peoples. Western Aleutian Islands: paleoecology, archaeology, peopling of the New World, maritime adaptations. Alaska: whaling, regional cultural development on the North Slope, the Yukon-Kuskokwim region and Bering Straits. Public policy in the circumpolar north.