Functional Analysis of Three Unusual Assemblages from the Cape Dorset Area, Baffin

ABSTRACT. A brief survey of the Cape Dorset area, Baffin Island recovered surface collections from three very similar, but unusual quartz assemblages. This paper hypothe-sizes that these assemblages represent a consistent set of activities. In testing this hypoth-esis, the author uses an approach to...

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Main Author: Wendy Hanford Arundale
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Arctic
Baffin Island
Cape Dorset
Baffin
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.526.5350
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic33-3-464.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. A brief survey of the Cape Dorset area, Baffin Island recovered surface collections from three very similar, but unusual quartz assemblages. This paper hypothe-sizes that these assemblages represent a consistent set of activities. In testing this hypoth-esis, the author uses an approach to functional analysis that has several important advantages over other methods. This approach can help solve problems in eastern arctic prehistory involving a relationship between environmental change and cultural change.

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