The cultural landscapes of Port Au Choix
Subtitle: precontact hunter-gatherers of northwestern Newfoundland
By: M.A.P. Renouf, editor
Series: Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology; Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781441983237; 9781441983244
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies; Landscape archaeology; Antiquities; Indians of North America; Social archaeology
Other titles: Precontact hunter-gatherers of northwestern Newfoundland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Archaeology at Port au Choix / M.A.P. Renouf; title: By land and sea : landscape and marine environmental perspectives on Port au Choix archaeology / Trevor Bell and M.A.P. Renouf; title: Across the tickle : the Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and the Maritime archaic Indian mortuary landscape / M.A.P. Renouf and Trevor Bell; title: Ritual activity and the formation of faunal assemblages at two Groswater Palaeoeskimo sites at Port au Choix / Patricia J. Wells; title: Mobility, curation, and exchange as factors in the distribution of the Phillip's Garden West Groswater toolkit / Karen Ryan; title: A sheltered life : inner cove Groswater Palaeoeskimo occupation at Port au Choix / Kendra D. Stiwich; title: On the headland : Dorset seal harvesting at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix / M.A.P. Renouf; title: The changing nature and function of Phillip's Garden : a diachronic perspective / John C. Erwin; title: 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; title: Down the Labrador : Ramah chert use at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix / Robert J. Anstey and M.A.P. Renouf; title: Whitecoats, beaters and turners : Dorset Palaeoeskimo harp seal hunting from Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix / Maribeth S. Murray; title: Aspects of Dorset Palaeoeskimo mortuary behaviour on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland / Stuart C. Brown; title: In the woods : the Cow Head complex occupation of the Gould Site, Port au Choix / M.A.P. Renouf, Michael A. Teal, and Trevor Bell; title: The life history of Port au Choix landscapes / M.A.P. Renouf; title: Appendix: Radiocarbon dates from Port au Choix / M.A.P. Renouf.