The Intra and Inter-Household Organization of Dorset Period Butchery and Disposal of Harp Seal at Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1): An examination of two midden assemblages from House 10.

• Main Author: Baxter, Kaylee
• Other Authors: Dr. Patricia Wells, Dr. Matthew Walls, Dr. Gerald Oetelaar, Dr. Naotaka Hayashi
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2023
• Subjects: Phillip's Garden; Harp seal; Middens; Newfoundland; Cutmarks; Middle Dorset; Paleo-Inuit; Butchery; Zooarchaeology; Disposal; houses; Social organization; Archaeology; Canada; Port au Choix; Harp Seal; inuit
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116626; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41469

Phillip’s Garden is a large Middle Dorset period seal hunting site in the Port au Choix area of northwestern Newfoundland, Canada. Harp seal dominates all Phillip’s Garden middens in quantities of up to 99% in faunal assemblages. This thesis investigates two midden assemblages from House 10, a large...