The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada
Coal artifacts are occasionally excavated by archaeologists from Thule culture settlements (c. A.D. 1100-1700) in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. This study examines two such artifacts from a Thule settlement located on the east coast of Axel Heiberg Island, Canada. One specimen has a petrographic c...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64133 2023-05-15T14:19:09+02:00 The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada Kalkreuth, Wolfgang Sutherland, Patricia D. 1998-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64133 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64133/48068 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64133 ARCTIC; Vol. 51 No. 4 (1998): December: 301–416; 345-349 1923-1245 0004-0843 Arctic Canada Axel Heiberg Island Thule culture coal artifacts coal petrology archaeology Canada arctique île Axel Heiberg culture Thulé artefacts de charbon pétrologie de la houille archeology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1998 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:19Z Coal artifacts are occasionally excavated by archaeologists from Thule culture settlements (c. A.D. 1100-1700) in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. This study examines two such artifacts from a Thule settlement located on the east coast of Axel Heiberg Island, Canada. One specimen has a petrographic composition typical of a cannel shale, in which sporinite is the most abundant organic constituent; the other is characterized by Botryococcus-alginite bodies typical of a boghead coal. Nearby exposures of Tertiary coal are generally woody and are not known to contain boghead layers or cannel shales. It is suggested that these artifacts may have their origin in Alaska, where boghead coal and cannel shales show strikingly similar petrographic features. Il arrive que des artefacts de charbon soient mis à jour lors de fouilles archéologiques dans les sites de peuplement de la culture Thulé (v. 1100-1700 apr. J.-C.) dans l'Arctique canadien et en Alaska. La présente étude se penche sur deux de ces artefacts provenant d'un site de peuplement Thulé qui se trouve sur la côte est de l'île Axel Heiberg, au Canada. Un des objets a une composition pétrographique typique d'un schiste sapropélique, dans lequel la sporinite est le constituant organique dominant; l'autre artefact se caractérise par la présence d'organismes d'alginite-Botryococcus typique d'un boghead. Des affleurements voisins de charbon datant du tertiaire sont généralement ligneux et ne contiennent pas, à ce que l'on sache, de couches de boghead ou de schistes sapropéliques. On suggère que ces artefacts pourraient venir de l'Alaska, où le boghead et les schistes sapropéliques offrent une similarité frappante des caractéristiques pétrographiques. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctique* Axel Heiberg Island Île Axel Heiberg Thule culture Alaska University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Axel Heiberg Island ENVELOPE(-91.001,-91.001,79.752,79.752) Canada Heiberg ENVELOPE(13.964,13.964,66.424,66.424) ARCTIC 51 4 |
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Coal artifacts are occasionally excavated by archaeologists from Thule culture settlements (c. A.D. 1100-1700) in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. This study examines two such artifacts from a Thule settlement located on the east coast of Axel Heiberg Island, Canada. One specimen has a petrographic composition typical of a cannel shale, in which sporinite is the most abundant organic constituent; the other is characterized by Botryococcus-alginite bodies typical of a boghead coal. Nearby exposures of Tertiary coal are generally woody and are not known to contain boghead layers or cannel shales. It is suggested that these artifacts may have their origin in Alaska, where boghead coal and cannel shales show strikingly similar petrographic features. Il arrive que des artefacts de charbon soient mis à jour lors de fouilles archéologiques dans les sites de peuplement de la culture Thulé (v. 1100-1700 apr. J.-C.) dans l'Arctique canadien et en Alaska. La présente étude se penche sur deux de ces artefacts provenant d'un site de peuplement Thulé qui se trouve sur la côte est de l'île Axel Heiberg, au Canada. Un des objets a une composition pétrographique typique d'un schiste sapropélique, dans lequel la sporinite est le constituant organique dominant; l'autre artefact se caractérise par la présence d'organismes d'alginite-Botryococcus typique d'un boghead. Des affleurements voisins de charbon datant du tertiaire sont généralement ligneux et ne contiennent pas, à ce que l'on sache, de couches de boghead ou de schistes sapropéliques. On suggère que ces artefacts pourraient venir de l'Alaska, où le boghead et les schistes sapropéliques offrent une similarité frappante des caractéristiques pétrographiques. |
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The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada |
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The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada |
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The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada |
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The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada |
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The Archaeology and Petrology of Coal Artifacts from a Thule Settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada |
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