Organization
Smithsonian Institution
Email
lorings@si.edu
Phone
202-633-1902
Address
NMNH MRC-112
Washington , District of Columbia 20013United 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.