Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada
Abstract Iron fragments located during 1969 by the Northwest Hudson Bay Thule Project at the Thuleage site of Silumiut have been subjected to spectrographic, microscopic, microprobe, and neutron activation analyses to determine their origin. Both meteoritic and terrestrial iron are represented and a...
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crcambridgeupr:10.2307/279720 2024-09-30T14:34:31+00:00 Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada McCartney, A. P. Mack, D. J. 1973 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/279720 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600089599 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms American Antiquity volume 38, issue 3, page 328-339 ISSN 0002-7316 2325-5064 journal-article 1973 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.2307/279720 2024-09-11T04:04:34Z Abstract Iron fragments located during 1969 by the Northwest Hudson Bay Thule Project at the Thuleage site of Silumiut have been subjected to spectrographic, microscopic, microprobe, and neutron activation analyses to determine their origin. Both meteoritic and terrestrial iron are represented and are presumed to have been traded from north-western Greenland. Meteoritic iron is widely spread around Melville Bay, and Norse iron was available from the same area by at least the twelfth century A.D. Norse iron from the Silumiut site is the most southerly known and the earliest radiocarbon dated in the central area. This iron and that from Naujan, Repulse Bay, indicate that native and European metal was an integral, albeit low frequency, part of the central Eskimo tool kit at least 400 yr before Hudson"s discovery of his bay. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* Greenland Hudson Bay Naujan Repulse Bay Thule Cambridge University Press Hudson Bay Canada Greenland Hudson Repulse Bay ENVELOPE(69.383,69.383,-48.883,-48.883) American Antiquity 38 3 328 339 |
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Abstract Iron fragments located during 1969 by the Northwest Hudson Bay Thule Project at the Thuleage site of Silumiut have been subjected to spectrographic, microscopic, microprobe, and neutron activation analyses to determine their origin. Both meteoritic and terrestrial iron are represented and are presumed to have been traded from north-western Greenland. Meteoritic iron is widely spread around Melville Bay, and Norse iron was available from the same area by at least the twelfth century A.D. Norse iron from the Silumiut site is the most southerly known and the earliest radiocarbon dated in the central area. This iron and that from Naujan, Repulse Bay, indicate that native and European metal was an integral, albeit low frequency, part of the central Eskimo tool kit at least 400 yr before Hudson"s discovery of his bay. |
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McCartney, A. P. Mack, D. J. Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada |
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Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada |
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Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada |
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Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada |
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Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada |
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Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada |
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iron utilization by thule eskimos of central canada |
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