Environmental Factors in the Evolution of Dorset Culture: A Marginal Proposal for Hudson Bay
Despite continued attention from archaeologists the origin of Dorset culture in the Eastern Arctic remains a persistent problem in northern prehistory. The transition from late Pre-Dorset to early Dorset culture is marked by a relatively rapid and consistent typological shift throughout a large geog...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0081130000000824 2024-03-03T08:41:36+00:00 Environmental Factors in the Evolution of Dorset Culture: A Marginal Proposal for Hudson Bay Fitzhugh, William 1976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000000824 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0081130000000824 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology volume 31, page 139-149 ISSN 0081-1300 2330-2275 journal-article 1976 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000000824 2024-02-08T08:43:22Z Despite continued attention from archaeologists the origin of Dorset culture in the Eastern Arctic remains a persistent problem in northern prehistory. The transition from late Pre-Dorset to early Dorset culture is marked by a relatively rapid and consistent typological shift throughout a large geographic area at between about 1000 and 800 B.C. Although hampered by a distinct paucity of information, available chronological and distributional data do not supply a ready explanation for such consistent changes over such a wide-flung territory. However, the lack of a time slope and the presence of regional variants do not suggest that Dorset origins will be found in a single locale; rather, the transition appears to have occurred throughout a band of interacting populations within the core area of the eastern Central Arctic. Subsequent changes may be seen as a result of stylistic evolution, diffusion, and migration into more peripheral regions during the maximum extension of the Dorset sphere. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Dorset culture Hudson Bay Cambridge University Press Arctic Hudson Bay Hudson Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology 31 139 149 |
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Despite continued attention from archaeologists the origin of Dorset culture in the Eastern Arctic remains a persistent problem in northern prehistory. The transition from late Pre-Dorset to early Dorset culture is marked by a relatively rapid and consistent typological shift throughout a large geographic area at between about 1000 and 800 B.C. Although hampered by a distinct paucity of information, available chronological and distributional data do not supply a ready explanation for such consistent changes over such a wide-flung territory. However, the lack of a time slope and the presence of regional variants do not suggest that Dorset origins will be found in a single locale; rather, the transition appears to have occurred throughout a band of interacting populations within the core area of the eastern Central Arctic. Subsequent changes may be seen as a result of stylistic evolution, diffusion, and migration into more peripheral regions during the maximum extension of the Dorset sphere. |
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Environmental Factors in the Evolution of Dorset Culture: A Marginal Proposal for Hudson Bay |
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Environmental Factors in the Evolution of Dorset Culture: A Marginal Proposal for Hudson Bay |
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