Recent Developments in the Dorset Culture Area

• Published in: Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology
• Main Author: Collins, Henry B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1953
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Newfoundland; Hudson Bay; Canada; Greenland; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Cape Dorset; Coats Island; Inglefield Land; Dorset culture; eskimo*; Inglefield land; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000001131; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0081130000001131

The Dorset culture was first recognized and described by Jenness (1925), on the basis of materials in the National Museum of Canada that had been excavated by Eskimos at Cape Dorset on Hudson Strait and on Coats Island in Hudson Bay. Since then Dorset material has been found at many sites in the eas...