ARCTIC Dog Remains from Devon Island, N. WT.: Archaeological and Osteological Evidence for Domestic Dog Use in the Thule Culture

• Main Author: Robert W. Park
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: Key words; dogs; Thule culture; Devon Island; archaeology; faunal osteology; Arctic; inuit
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.496.5453; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic40-3-184.pdf

ABSTRACT. A collection of dog bones recovered from a Thule culture site at Porden Point, Devon Island, N.W.T., was found to include abundant evidence of trauma consistent with the dogs having been repeatedly struck in the facial area. The proportional representation of bones found suggests that the...