Paleoeskimo Cultures of Northern Labrador

• Published in: Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology
• Main Author: Tuck, James A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1976
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Canada; Saglek Bay; Upernavik Island; eskimo*; Upernavik; Rose Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000000794; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0081130000000794

This paper limits itself to a description of four complexes revealed by our excavations at Saglek Bay, northern Labrador, during the years 1969, 1970, and 1971. A “Pre-Dorset” complex and three phases of a considerably longer Dorset Eskimo occupation are examined and some comparison within the Sagle...