essay
Angujaartorfik: a Paleo-Eskimo caribou hunting camp
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: 119-128
By: Kapel, Hans.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief study of Angujaartorfik, a Paleo-Eskimo caribou hunting camp located in western Greenland, and associated with the Saqqaq culture period. The site was surveyed in 1988 and a limited collection of surface artifacts taken as samples for carbon 14 dating. The results of the preliminary investigations are presented here along with thoughts concerning Saqqaq exploitation of inland hunting resources (p. 119).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Archaeological survey methods
- Location
- 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
- 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
- 1987-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Saqqaq Culture (ca. 3890 BP-3400 BP)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Angujaartorfik, western Greenland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hans Kapel
- Includes bibliographical references (see document 7:Anonymous)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities