The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix [electronic resource] : Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland /
Renouf, M. A. P.editor.
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, 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.
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The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Archaeology at Port au Choix; Chapter 2: By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives on Port au Choix Archaeology; Chapter 3: Across the Tickle: The Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and the Maritime Archaic Indian Mortuary Landscape; Chapter 4: Ritual Activity and the Formation of Faunal Assemblages at Two Groswater Palaeoeskimo Sites at Port au Choix
Chapter 5: Mobility, Curation, and Exchange as Factorsin the Distribution of the Phillip's Garden West Groswater ToolkitChapter 6: A Sheltered Life: Inner Cove Groswater Palaeoeskimo Occupation at Port au Choix; Chapter 7: On the Headland: Dorset Seal Harvesting at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix; Chapter 8: The Changing Nature and Function of Phillip's Garden: A Diachronic Perspective; Chapter 9: Settlement Size and Structural Complexity: A Case Study in Geophysical Survey at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix; Chapter 10: Down the Labrador: Ramah Chert Use at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix*
Chapter 11: Whitecoats, Beaters and Turners: Dorset Palaeoeskimo Harp Seal Hunting from Phillip's Garden, Port au ChoixChapter 12: Aspects of Dorset Palaeoeskimo Mortuary Behaviour on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland; Chapter 13: In the Woods: The Cow Head Complex Occupation of the Gould Site, Port au Choix; Chapter 14: The Life History of Port au Choix Landscapes; Appendix Radiocarbon Dates from Port au Choix; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, 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.
Archaeology.
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Human geography.
Geology.
Archaeology.
Anthropology.
Human Geography.
Geology.
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology