A beetle-based palaeoecological reconstruction of human-environment interactions in Kivalekh, northern Labrador
This research attempts to capture and document the “ecological footprint” of past Inuit groups who lived in Kivalekh in northern Labrador over the last thousand years. Using methods from both archaeology and palaeoecology, this work aims to examine and document how human activities affected the loca...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
2022
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| Online Access: | https://research.library.mun.ca/15933/ https://research.library.mun.ca/15933/3/converted.pdf |
| Summary: | This research attempts to capture and document the “ecological footprint” of past Inuit groups who lived in Kivalekh in northern Labrador over the last thousand years. Using methods from both archaeology and palaeoecology, this work aims to examine and document how human activities affected the local landscape and ecosystems processes. This is achieved by reconstructing environmental change in the vicinity of Kivalekh over the last thousand years or so through a multi-proxy analysis (with archaeoentomology – the study of insect remains – as the main focus, complemented with biostratigraphy and charcoal analysis) applied on one peat monolith collected within a 30-meters distance of the archaeological site itself. This thesis first reviews published research that has examined how hunter-fisher-gatherers affected local environments through their activities within the landscape and discusses methodological considerations relevant to this scholarly literature. This review informed the design of the methods employed to achieve the research conducted in this thesis, which also led to a better understanding of the chronology of human occupation at Kivalekh. Cette recherche tente de capturer et documenter « l’empreinte écologique » des groupes Inuit qui ont vécu à Kivalekh, au nord du Labrador sur une période de 1000 ans. En combinant des méthodes provenant de l’archéologie environnementale et de la paléoécologie, ce travail tente de documenter les différentes façons dont ces groupes humains ont modifié le paysage local du nord du Labrador, et par le fait même, affecté les dynamiques des écosystèmes. Ceci est réalisé en reconstruisant les changements environnementaux locaux en périphérie du site archéologique de Kivalekh, sur une période approximative de 1000 ans. Je combine plusieurs méthodes d’analyse (soit l’archéoentomologie étant la méthode principale, complémentée avec des analyses biostratigraphiques et anthracologiques) sur un échantillon de tourbière provenant d’un monolithe prélevé en périphérie du site (<30 ... |
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