A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site : Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900)

• Published in: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
• Main Authors: Houmard, Claire, Grønnow, Bjarne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Société Préhistorique Française 2017
• Subjects: Thuléen; Arctique central; Canada; baie d’Hudson; Naujan; technologie osseuse; Therkel Mathiassen; 5e expédition de Thulé; Central Canadian Arctic; Thule culture; Hudson Bay; bone technology; Fifth Thule Expedition; archeo; geo; Arctic; Hudson; Rasmussen; Repulse Bay; Arctique Central; Arctique*; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2017.14802; https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_2017_num_114_3_14802

Naujan is located on the north coast of Repulse Bay in Eastern Arctic, a region occupied by the Aivilirmiut at the beginning of the 20th century. This site, the first professionally excavated in the Arctic, is generally considered as the ‘type-site’ for the Eastern Arctic Thule culture. In 1922, dur...