The Cultural Landscapes of Port Au Choix

Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland
Herausgegeben:Renouf, M. A. P.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11431626, 978-1-4419-8323-7
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781441983237
• ISBN-10: 1441983236
• Artikelnr.: 32299417

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

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)