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Nunnguaq: a Saqqaq site from Godthåbsfjorden
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: 129-142
By: Appelt, Martin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper presents part of the artifact inventory from the Late Saqqaq site of Nunnguaq, located in the inner part of a fjord complex in Nuuk/Godthab district, western Greenland. The material presented here includes plans of two well-preserved dwellings and drawings of the soapstone lamps from the site. Furthermore, functional categories for the bifacial projectile points are proposed (p. 129).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Weapons
- General tools
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- 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
- 1960-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Late Saqqaq Period
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nunnguaq, Nuuk/Godthab district, western Greenland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Martin Appelt and John Pind
- Includes bibliographical references (see document 7:Anonymous)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities