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Identifying seasonality in Pre-Dorset structures in Back Bay, Prince of Wales Island, NWT
Arctic anthropology • 32 (2) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 106-117
By: Ramsden, Peter, Murray, Maribeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Ramsden and Murray infer specific seasons of occupation at the Back Bay site on Prince of Wales Island based on structure type, location, and faunal content. They suggest that '…large, well-defined tent rings represent warm season skin tents, while smaller more ephemeral features represent cold season snow-walled structures' (p. 106). From this evidence, the authors suggest a short-term pattern of residential stability characterized by frequent moves to new locations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1980, 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4500 BP -2800 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Back Bay, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter Ramsden and Maribeth Murray
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-117)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities