Reddit mentions of Voices in Stone (Komatik series)

Arctic archaeology is certainly an interesting thing to study at the moment. A lot of questions are unanswered and there's a hell of a lot of work to be done. So I think that the archaeological community is divided on a lot of issues. There are some that view the people living in the Arctic (at least in Canada and Greenland) as fairly isolated. So they would say that no or little interaction occurred between the Dorset, Norse, and Thule. I am of the thought that we are very much underestimating the size of networks at this time (at least the networks between Arctic peoples). Lots of new archaeological evidence too is pointing to a much more complex situation.

I would say that studying the Arctic is still very much divided into those regions you mentioned. In some ways, it has to do with modern boundaries and in others it does reflect the realities of the past. There is certainly a lot of evidence that shows population movements between Greenland and Canada than there is between Greenland and Siberia. And, indeed Greenlandic Inuit are different from Canadian Inuit. I would say that cultures within those regions certainly interacted with each other and there is some very interesting links that are being drawn between the Saami, Siberian people, and Dorset (the archaeology of shamanism book I linked in my first post talks about this a lot). They certainly did not contact each other but there are some interesting cultural continuities among Arctic groups of different regions. Hell, there is even a case where you get ritually buried walrus skulls in a Norse site in Greenland and a Dorset site in southern Baffin Island (slight differences between the two but still very similar).

Unfortunately, there is no single "go-to" book concerning Arctic history. There is one book called "Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic" (1985) by Moreau Maxwell but it costs a small fortune. I would suggest reading Ancient People of the Arctic and The Last Imaginary Place both by Robert McGhee (a legendary Arctic archaeologist). The latter even goes into Siberian cultures too. They can generally be found fairly cheap and most libraries would have a copy. They are written for a wider audience too so they never get too bogged down in the specifics. There's also Voices in Stone by Peter Schledermann (another fantastic Arctic archaeologist). I've found this book slightly harder to find but the writing is just as strong. The Schledermann book also focuses more on the High Arctic (e.g. Ellesmere Island) since that is where the author did most of his fieldwork.