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The Palaeoeskimo occupations at Port Refuge, High Arctic Canada
National Museums of Canada • (92) • Published In 1979 • Pages: vii, 176
By: McGhee, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of several archaeological sites at Port Refuge, a small bay on the south coast of Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada. The author's archaeological fieldwork, which took place between 1972-1977, uncovered several prehistoric occupational sites in the area which have been ascribed to the Independence I, Pre-Dorset, Independence II/early Dorset, late Dorset, and Thule cultures. The present report describes the archaeological material relating to the early Arctic Small Tool tradition occupations -- the Independence I and Pre-Dorset cultural phases. 'Five components are ascribed to an Independece I variant, and one to a Pre-Dorset variant of the ASTt [Arctic Small Tool tradition]. The Independence I components comprise between 13 and 31 discrete features, most of which appear to have been single family tent dwellings of the midpassage form; faunal analysis suggest that these dwellings were occupied for periods of time ranging from a few days to a few weeks, by people who were engaged primarily in hunting ringed seals, waterfowl and fox. The single Pre-Dorset component appears to represent a more lengthy occupaiton, but the faunal remains suggest an economic orientation similar to that of the Independence I people. A brief attempt is made to understand the relationships between the Port Refuge people and Arctic Small Tool tradition people in other Arctic areas, and to explain the nature of the earliest occupation of the Port Refuge area' (p. iii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Historical reconstruction
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- General tools
- Archaeological inventories
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Arctic Small Tool
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4000 BP - 2200 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Port Refuge, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert McGhee
- Summary in French
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80514877
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities