Middle Dorset Communal Structures on Victoria Island

• Published in: Open Archaeology
• Main Author: Friesen T. Max
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Dorset; Communal Structure; Aggregation; Caribou; Archaeology; CC1-960; Nunavut; Canada; Oxford Bay; Victoria Island; victoria island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2016-0015; https://doaj.org/article/53a59abf12884727b006c54b2e7e36ce

This paper describes a cluster of large communal structures in the Oxford Bay region of southeastern Victoria Island in Nunavut, Arctic Canada. The structures consist of linear stone outlines of up to 24 meters in length, and resemble the relatively well-documented Late Dorset longhouses which have...