Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Timeline of a Dorset-Thule Settlement at Quaqtaq (Nunavik, Canada)

• Published in: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Main Authors: Bhiry, Najat, Marguerie, Dominique, Lofthouse, Susan
• Other Authors: Centre d'études nordiques et Département de Géographie, Université Laval Québec (ULaval), Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution Rennes (ECOBIO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR)-Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Avataq Cultural Institute, Private Institue, NSERC grant "From Tuniit to Inuit project' CURA Program; IPEV
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Canada; Diana Bay; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Igloo Island; Nunavik; Quaqtaq; Antarctic and Alpine Research; Arctic; Arctic and Alpine Research; inuit; walrus*
• Online Access: https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01331183; https://doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0015-045

International audience A geoarchaeological and paleobotanical study of a Paleoeskimo and Neoeskimo site was undertaken in order to reconstruct site-formation processes. The study site JfEl-10 is located on Igloo Island, in Diana Bay, on the southern shore of Hudson Strait. It contains a peat-mineral...