LATE DORSET TRIANGULAR MIDPASSAGES IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC AND NORTHWEST GREENLAND: ORIGINS AND DISPERSAL

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Authors: Darwent, John, Savelle, James M., Darwent, Christyann M., Dyke, Arthur S., Lange, Hans, LeMoine, Genevieve M., Pinard, Claude
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Boothia Peninsula; Greenland; Inglefield Land; greenlandic; Inglefield land
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2018.18; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731618000185

Midpassages are the most recognizable architectural feature associated with the entire Paleoeskimo period (2800 BC–AD 1300) in the Canadian and Greenlandic Arctic. Usually built of stone, midpassages are rectangular-shaped axial structures that run through the center of tent rings and semisubterrane...