(Table 2) Number of identified specimens and individuals from bones and bone fragments at site IbGk-3, Drayton Island ...

• Main Authors: Desrosiers, Pierre M, Lofthouse, Susan, Bhiry, Najat, Lemieux, Anne-Marie, Monchot, Hervé, Gendron, Daniel, Marguerie, Dominique
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: Name; Taxon/taxa; Number of identified specimens; Number of individuals; Mass; Percentage; Excavation; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Hudson Bay; International Polar Year; inuit; IPY; Nunavik
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.808897; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.808897

An interdisciplinary study was conducted at Qijurittuq (IbGk-3), an archaeological site located on Drayton Island along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, Nunavik. Local Inuit made important contributions to the research. High school students participated in the field school, and elders shared their traditional knowledge. The elders expressed an interest in the source of the wood used to construct Qijurittuq's semi-subterranean dwellings, and this inspired us to expand our research in that direction. This interdisciplinary study included a reconstruction of the geomorphological and environmental history of Drayton Island, wood provenance and dendrochronology studies, research on house architecture and settlement patterns, and a zooarchaeological analysis. This paper synthesizes the preliminary results of this interdisciplinary investigation within the context of climate change. We discuss the persistence of semi-subterranean dwellings in eastern Hudson Bay long after they had been abandoned elsewhere. At ... : Radiocarbon dates for peat and wood samples at site IbGk-3 can be found in Lemieux et al (2011) dataset: doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.808902. Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ...