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Title

Contributions to the study of the Dorset Palaeo-Eskimos / edited by Patricia D. Sutherland.

Publication

Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sutherland, Patricia D.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Description

xi, 165 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Since their existence become known to archaeology during the 1920s, the Dorset Palaeo-Eskimos of Arctic Canada and Greenland have been the subject of considerable research and debate. The papers in this volume address a wide range of issues that are of interest to current scholarship, including assessments of the biological relationships of the Dorset population; the interpretation of succession and discontinuity in Palaeo-Eskimo occupations of various Arctic regions; the problems of constructing local chronological sequences on the basis of stylistic change; questions relating to Dorset technology; the significance of petroglyph sites; and the social correlates of the large stone structures associated with late Dorset occupations." "An introductory essay provides historical context for these recent contributions to the understanding of a pre-Inuit Arctic people and their distinctive way of life."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Archaeology paper, 1707-8989 ; 167
• Mercury series

Uniform Title

• Mercury series
• Archaeology paper (Canadian Museum of Civilization) ; 167.

Subject

• Dorset culture > Canada, Northern > Congresses
• Dorset culture > Newfoundland and Labrador > Congresses
• Dorset culture > Greenland > Congresses
• Dorset culture > Arctic regions > Congresses
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > Arctic regions > Congresses
• Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric > Arctic regions > Congresses
• Arctic peoples > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Arctic regions > Congresses
• Culture de Dorset > Canada (Nord) > Congrès
• Culture de Dorset > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Congrès
• Culture de Dorset > Groenland > Congrès
• Culture de Dorset > Arctique > Congrès
• Archéologie préhistorique > Arctique > Congrès
• Antiquités préhistoriques > Arctique > Congrès
• Colonisation intérieure > Types préhistorique > Arctique > Congrès
• Peuples de l'Arctique > Congrès
• Arctic regions > Antiquities > Congresses
• Arctic regions > Antiquities

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "The annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in May 2000 included a session called 'The Dorset Culture, 75 years after Jenness' ... Of the twelve papers in the session, seven appear in this volume"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes abstract in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Molecular archaeology of the Dorset, Thule, and Sadlermiut, Ancestor-Descendant relationships in Eastern North American Arctic prehistory / M. Geoffrey Hayes, Joan Brenner Coltrain and Dennis H. O'Rourke -- Ethnogenesis in the Central and Eastern Arctic, a reconstruction based on cranial nonmetric traits / Nancy Suzanne Ossenberg -- Phillip's Garden West, a Newfoundland Groswater Variant / M.A.P. Renouf -- One of these things is not like the other, typology, chronology, and the concept of Middle Dorset / Daniel Odess -- Palaeo-eskimo continuity and discontinuity in West Greenland / Jens Fog Jensen --
• Kiinatuqarvik, a multidisciplinary archaeological project on Dorset petroglyphs and human occupation in the Kangirsujuaq area / Daniel Arsenault ... [et al.] -- Revisiting the Dorset soapstone quarry in Fleur de Lys, Newfoundland / John C. Erwin -- Understanding Dorset from a different perspective, worked antler, bone, and ivory / Genevieve M. LeMoine -- Late Dorset longhouses, a look inside / Eric Damkjar.

ISBN

0660194147

OCLC

59136742

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library