An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience Recent excavations in northern Greenland at the early Inuit site, Nuulliit, belonging to the Ruin Island Phase of the Thule culture, included a settlement area in front of House 30, a turf house ruin originally investigated by Holtved in 1947. A discussion of the interpretatio...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-04284888v1 2024-02-27T08:36:11+00:00 An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland Mønsted, Asta Appelt, Martin Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte Houmard, Claire Zazzo, Antoine Cersoy, Sophie Tombret, Olivier Grønnow, Bjarne National Museum of Denmark (NATMUS) University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH) Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC) Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC ) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2023 https://hal.science/hal-04284888 https://hal.science/hal-04284888/document https://hal.science/hal-04284888/file/Monsted_final.pdf https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.59.1.3 en eng HAL CCSD University of Wisconsin Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3368/aa.59.1.3 hal-04284888 https://hal.science/hal-04284888 https://hal.science/hal-04284888/document https://hal.science/hal-04284888/file/Monsted_final.pdf doi:10.3368/aa.59.1.3 ISSN: 0066-6939 Arctic Anthropology https://hal.science/hal-04284888 Arctic Anthropology, 2023, 59 (1), pp.3-38. ⟨10.3368/aa.59.1.3⟩ [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.59.1.3 2024-01-28T00:22:15Z International audience Recent excavations in northern Greenland at the early Inuit site, Nuulliit, belonging to the Ruin Island Phase of the Thule culture, included a settlement area in front of House 30, a turf house ruin originally investigated by Holtved in 1947. A discussion of the interpretation of the feature as a qassi (a men’s house) is presented, and analyses of the spatial distributions of waste, tools, and preforms show that the area in front of the qassi served mainly as a workshop, where repair, recycling, and discard of hunting gear and tools took place. Walrus ivory tools, soapstone vessels, and blades of meteoric iron were produced. Training apprentices was an integral part of the activities, and small seals and birds were consumed in the workshop area. The workshop mainly dates to the 14th century AD. Norse iron was found, and a reevaluation of radiocarbon dates leads to a discussion of the early Inuit expansion into Greenland Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Anthropology Greenland inuit Thule Thule culture walrus* Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Greenland Arctic Anthropology 59 1 3 38 |
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International audience Recent excavations in northern Greenland at the early Inuit site, Nuulliit, belonging to the Ruin Island Phase of the Thule culture, included a settlement area in front of House 30, a turf house ruin originally investigated by Holtved in 1947. A discussion of the interpretation of the feature as a qassi (a men’s house) is presented, and analyses of the spatial distributions of waste, tools, and preforms show that the area in front of the qassi served mainly as a workshop, where repair, recycling, and discard of hunting gear and tools took place. Walrus ivory tools, soapstone vessels, and blades of meteoric iron were produced. Training apprentices was an integral part of the activities, and small seals and birds were consumed in the workshop area. The workshop mainly dates to the 14th century AD. Norse iron was found, and a reevaluation of radiocarbon dates leads to a discussion of the early Inuit expansion into Greenland |
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National Museum of Denmark (NATMUS) University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH) Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC) Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC ) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland |
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An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland |
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An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland |
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An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland |
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An Early Inuit Workshop at a Qassi , a Men’s House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland |
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ISSN: 0066-6939 Arctic Anthropology https://hal.science/hal-04284888 Arctic Anthropology, 2023, 59 (1), pp.3-38. ⟨10.3368/aa.59.1.3⟩ |
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