A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site : Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900)
Naujan is located on the north coast of Repulse Bay in Eastern Arctic, a region occupied by the Aivilirmiut at the beginning of the 20th century. This site, the first professionally excavated in the Arctic, is generally considered as the ‘type-site’ for the Eastern Arctic Thule culture. In 1922, dur...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-04308617v1 2024-02-27T08:37:35+00:00 A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site : Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900) Houmard, Claire Grønnow, Bjarne 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) National Museum of Denmark (NATMUS) 2017 https://hal.science/hal-04308617 https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2017.14802 en eng HAL CCSD Société préhistorique française info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3406/bspf.2017.14802 hal-04308617 https://hal.science/hal-04308617 doi:10.3406/bspf.2017.14802 ISSN: 0249-7638 EISSN: 1760-7361 Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française https://hal.science/hal-04308617 Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 2017, 114 (3), pp.445-468. ⟨10.3406/bspf.2017.14802⟩ [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2017 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2017.14802 2024-01-28T00:19:23Z Naujan is located on the north coast of Repulse Bay in Eastern Arctic, a region occupied by the Aivilirmiut at the beginning of the 20th century. This site, the first professionally excavated in the Arctic, is generally considered as the ‘type-site’ for the Eastern Arctic Thule culture. In 1922, during summer, Therkel Mathiassen from the National Museum of Denmark participated in the well-known 5th Thule Expedition led by Knud Rasmussen, and was in charge of the archaeological investigations. With the help of his Greenlandic assistant Jacob Olsen, he carried out excavations during six weeks and brought back a rich collection of artefacts. Of these about 2,800 artefacts were recorded from twenty structures. Houses VI and VIII were the first and most carefully excavated. All of the artefacts from these two features, which represent about 17% of the whole collection, were recorded and mapped. Information on spatial distribution as well as stratigraphic position were also carefully reported, but less precisely for the houses excavated later. Therkel Mathiassen used a continuous numeration for the whole site, the numbers assigned to artefacts corresponding to the order of their discovery. The osseous assemblages from Houses VI and VIII have been carefully analyzed. The present thorough technological study provides new information regarding the manufacturing processes for antler, bone and ivory artefacts. Grooving for the debitage sequence and whittling for the shaping dominate. The raw material selection, the techniques of manufacturing and hafting, as well as the perforations, clearly distinguish the technological traditions of the craftsmen who occupied House VI from those of House VIII. Our study leads to the conclusion that at least two distinct chronological stages of occupation can be identified. The Naujan site as a whole can thus no longer be considered as a reference site for a specific Thule phase of the Eastern Arctic occupation. Naujan est un site de l’Arctique de l’Est situé sur la côte nord-ouest de ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic greenlandic Naujan Repulse Bay Thule culture Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic Rasmussen ENVELOPE(-64.084,-64.084,-65.248,-65.248) Repulse Bay ENVELOPE(69.383,69.383,-48.883,-48.883) Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 114 3 445 468 |
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Naujan is located on the north coast of Repulse Bay in Eastern Arctic, a region occupied by the Aivilirmiut at the beginning of the 20th century. This site, the first professionally excavated in the Arctic, is generally considered as the ‘type-site’ for the Eastern Arctic Thule culture. In 1922, during summer, Therkel Mathiassen from the National Museum of Denmark participated in the well-known 5th Thule Expedition led by Knud Rasmussen, and was in charge of the archaeological investigations. With the help of his Greenlandic assistant Jacob Olsen, he carried out excavations during six weeks and brought back a rich collection of artefacts. Of these about 2,800 artefacts were recorded from twenty structures. Houses VI and VIII were the first and most carefully excavated. All of the artefacts from these two features, which represent about 17% of the whole collection, were recorded and mapped. Information on spatial distribution as well as stratigraphic position were also carefully reported, but less precisely for the houses excavated later. Therkel Mathiassen used a continuous numeration for the whole site, the numbers assigned to artefacts corresponding to the order of their discovery. The osseous assemblages from Houses VI and VIII have been carefully analyzed. The present thorough technological study provides new information regarding the manufacturing processes for antler, bone and ivory artefacts. Grooving for the debitage sequence and whittling for the shaping dominate. The raw material selection, the techniques of manufacturing and hafting, as well as the perforations, clearly distinguish the technological traditions of the craftsmen who occupied House VI from those of House VIII. Our study leads to the conclusion that at least two distinct chronological stages of occupation can be identified. The Naujan site as a whole can thus no longer be considered as a reference site for a specific Thule phase of the Eastern Arctic occupation. Naujan est un site de l’Arctique de l’Est situé sur la côte nord-ouest de ... |
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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) National Museum of Denmark (NATMUS) |
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A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site : Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900) |
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ISSN: 0249-7638 EISSN: 1760-7361 Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française https://hal.science/hal-04308617 Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 2017, 114 (3), pp.445-468. ⟨10.3406/bspf.2017.14802⟩ |
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