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Paleo-Eskimo sites and finds in the Scoresby Sund area
paleo-eskimo cultures of greenland : a new perspective in greenlandic archaeology : papers from a symposium at the institute of archaeology and ethnology, university of copenhagen, may 21-24, 1992 • (1) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 161-176
By: Sandell, Hanne, Sandell, Birger.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief survey of a number of Paleo-Eskimo sites in the Scoresby Sund area of eastern Greenland, made by the authors during two summer seasons in 1989-1990 and again in the summer of 1992. Primary emphasis in this document is on the artifacts recovered, their physical composition, and on the structural remains found at the sites. The cultural provenance of many of the artifacts is often unclear in this work because of the similarity in workmanship between many of the Saqqaq, Dorset, and Neo-Eskimo tools.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Comparative evidence
- Prehistory
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 1989-1990, 1992 (summers)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 4560 BP-4490 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Scoresby Sund, eastern Greenland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hanne Sandell and Birger Sandell
- Includes bibliographical references (see document 7:Anonymous)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities