The Dorset-Thule Transition
This chapter addresses the question of whether the people of the Thule culture met and interacted with people of the Dorset culture when they ventured eastward from Alaska. Most archaeologists have long believed that such a meeting took place and that the Dorset either assimilated into Thule communi...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.57 2024-02-11T10:03:23+01:00 The Dorset-Thule Transition Park, Robert Friesen, Max Mason, Owen 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.57 unknown Oxford University Press Oxford Handbooks Online book 2016 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.57 2024-01-12T09:45:37Z This chapter addresses the question of whether the people of the Thule culture met and interacted with people of the Dorset culture when they ventured eastward from Alaska. Most archaeologists have long believed that such a meeting took place and that the Dorset either assimilated into Thule communities and quickly adopted their way of life or, in order to avoid the Thule newcomers, retreated to ecologically marginal areas where they were unable to survive for long. However, researchers haven’t found any sites that provide even reasonably unambiguous proof of face-to-face contact, so our inferences have been based on very circumstantial types of evidence. This chapter argues that the very minimal evidence of acculturation actually derives from Thule salvage of Dorset sites and artifacts, and that all other evidence is consistent with the Dorset having disappeared prior to the earliest likely date of the Thule arrival. Book Dorset culture Thule culture Alaska Oxford University Press |
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This chapter addresses the question of whether the people of the Thule culture met and interacted with people of the Dorset culture when they ventured eastward from Alaska. Most archaeologists have long believed that such a meeting took place and that the Dorset either assimilated into Thule communities and quickly adopted their way of life or, in order to avoid the Thule newcomers, retreated to ecologically marginal areas where they were unable to survive for long. However, researchers haven’t found any sites that provide even reasonably unambiguous proof of face-to-face contact, so our inferences have been based on very circumstantial types of evidence. This chapter argues that the very minimal evidence of acculturation actually derives from Thule salvage of Dorset sites and artifacts, and that all other evidence is consistent with the Dorset having disappeared prior to the earliest likely date of the Thule arrival. |
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