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
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC), National Museum of Denmark (NATMUS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Arctic; Rasmussen; Repulse Bay; greenlandic; Naujan; Thule culture
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04308617; https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2017.14802

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...