1 History of the Dorset Problem
This study is devoted to, brings new data to bear on, and seeks to contribute to, a solution for the problem of the prehistoric origin or origins of the Dorset culture in the eastern Canadian Arctic. I carried out archaeological field work for the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, and was concerned...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0081130000003221 2024-03-03T08:41:58+00:00 1 History of the Dorset Problem Taylor, William E. 1968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000003221 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0081130000003221 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology volume 22, page 1-8 ISSN 0081-1300 2330-2275 journal-article 1968 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0081130000003221 2024-02-08T08:27:03Z This study is devoted to, brings new data to bear on, and seeks to contribute to, a solution for the problem of the prehistoric origin or origins of the Dorset culture in the eastern Canadian Arctic. I carried out archaeological field work for the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, and was concerned primarily with that problem, during the summers of 1957-58-59. The analytic work was largely completed by June 1960. This study draws principally on pertinent data available up to that date, but occasionally incorporated subsequently available evidence. As so often must happen, the task of completing this manuscript, having done the analysis, was often delayed by the more immediate demands of other museum duties. So that the reader may be forewarned, if not forearmed, a history of the work on Dorset culture and the question of its origin follows as an introduction to this study. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Dorset culture Cambridge University Press Arctic Canada Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology 22 1 8 |
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This study is devoted to, brings new data to bear on, and seeks to contribute to, a solution for the problem of the prehistoric origin or origins of the Dorset culture in the eastern Canadian Arctic. I carried out archaeological field work for the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, and was concerned primarily with that problem, during the summers of 1957-58-59. The analytic work was largely completed by June 1960. This study draws principally on pertinent data available up to that date, but occasionally incorporated subsequently available evidence. As so often must happen, the task of completing this manuscript, having done the analysis, was often delayed by the more immediate demands of other museum duties. So that the reader may be forewarned, if not forearmed, a history of the work on Dorset culture and the question of its origin follows as an introduction to this study. |
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