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Newfoundland lies at the intersection of arctic and more temperate regions and, commensurate with this geography, populations of two Amerindian and two Paleo-Eskimo cultural traditions occupied Port au Choix for significant periods of time. Over the past two decades, the Port au Choix Archaeology Project has sought a comparative understanding of how these different cultures, each with their particular origin and historical trajectory, adapted to the changing physical environment, impacted their physical surroundings, created cultural landscapes and interacted with each other.This edited work will bring together not only archaeologists, but also geologists, both cultural and physical anthropologists, and ecologists. Even thought this particular extensive study is a specific geographic area in Newfoundland, Canada, it will bring to light wider implications for understanding settlement and society in prehistoric hunter-gatherer and landscape studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction: Archaeology at Port au Choix
M.A.P. Renouf
Chapter 2
By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives
on Port au Choix Archaeology
Trevor Bell and M.A.P. Renouf
Chapter 3
Across the Tickle: the Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and
the Maritime Archaic Indian Mortuary Landscape
M.A.P. Renouf and Trevor Bell
Chapter 4
Ritual Activity and the Formation of Faunal Assemblages at Two
Groswater Palaeoeskimo Sites at Port au Choix
Patricia J. Wells
Chapter 5
Mobility, Curation, and Exchange as Factors in the Distribution of
the Phillip's Garden West Groswater Toolkit
Karen Ryan
Chapter 6
A Sheltered Life: Inner Cove Groswater Palaeoeskimo Occupation
at Port au Choix
Kendra D. Wheatley
Chapter 7
On the Headland: Dorset Seal Harvesting at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix
M.A.P. Renouf
Chapter 8
The Changing Nature and Function of Phillip's Garden: a Diachronic Perspective
John C. Erwin
Chapter 9
Settlement Size and Structural Complexity: A Case Study
in Geophysical Survey at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix
Edward J.H. Eastaugh and Jeremy Taylor
Chapter 10
Down the Labrador: Ramah Chert Use at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix
Robert J. Anstey and M.A.P. Renouf
Chapter 11
Whitecoats, Beaters and Turners:
Dorset Palaeoeskimo Harp Seal Hunting from Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix
Maribeth S. Murray
Chapter 12
Aspects of Dorset Palaeoeskimo Mortuary Behaviour
on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
Stuart C. Brown
Chapter 13
In the Woods: The Cow Head Complex Occupation of
the Gould Site, Port au Choix
M.A.P. Renouf, Michael A. Teal, Trevor Bell
Chapter 14
The Life History of Port au Choix Landscapes
M.A.P. Renouf
Appendix
Radiocarbon dates from Port au Choix
M.A.P. Renouf
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dr. Priscilla Renouf, Canada Research Chair of North Atlantic Archaeology, has conducted research in Labrador, Newfoundland, Arctic Norway and Greenland. For the past several years her research has been situated in Port au Choix, northwestern Newfoundland, where she is reconstructing 5,500 years of human adaptation to a changing environment. Dr. Renouf co-founded an international research group, called LINK, which consists of a dozen archaeologists working in North Atlantic areas: Labrador, Greenland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway. Their purpose is to integrate social and natural science research to address questions of how past human societies in the North Atlantic reacted to long- and short-term climate fluctuations. Dr. Renouf is committed to communicating the results of her research to the public as well as the academic community. She continues to achieve this through videos, exhibits, publications and public presentations.
Zusammenfassung
Newfoundland lies at the intersection of arctic and more temperate regions and, commensurate with this geography, populations of two Amerindian and two Paleoeskimo cultural traditions occupied Port au Choix, in northern Newfoundland, Canada, for centuries and millennia. Over the past two decades The Port au Choix Archaeology Project has sought a comparative understanding of how these different cultures, each with their particular origin and historical trajectory, adapted to the changing physical and social environments, impacted their physical surroundings, and created cultural landscapes. This volume brings together the research of Renouf, her colleagues and her students who together employ multiple perspectives and methods to provide a detailed reconstruction and understanding of the long-term history of Port au Choix. Although geographically focussed on a northern coastal area, this volume has wider implications for understanding archaeological landscapes, human-environment interactions and hunter-gatherer societies.
Bericht
From the book reviews:
"The volume is organised into fourteen chapters bracketed by an introduction and a conclusion written by Renouf ... . This volume is recommended for students of archaeology as a useful text on culture history, methodology, and ways of thinking about data sets. I recommend this volume to researchers for the model or template it provides when planning research programmes and setting research standards." (Marianne P. Stopp, Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal Canadien D'Archeologie, Issue 37, 2013)
