Dorset Palaeoeskimo Skin Processing at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix, Northwestern Newfoundland

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Renouf, M.A.P., Bell, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Port au Choix; Arctic; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic5; http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/5/5

This paper examines artifactual and palaeo-limnological evidence of sealskin processing associated with Phillip’s Garden, a Dorset Palaeoeskimo site at Port au Choix in northwestern Newfoundland. We propose that harp seals were hunted from Phillip’s Garden as much for skins as for meat and fat, and...