Nadlok and Its Unusual Antler Dwellings
Nadlok, or "crossing-place-of-deer" in Bathurst Inuit dialect, is an island camp and herd interception site found in 1982 by Douglas Stern 100 km south of Bathurst Inlet, Northwest Territories. In the "Little Ice Age" (1450-1700 A.D.), a few families of coastal Copper Inuit appea...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64764 2023-05-15T14:19:13+02:00 Nadlok and Its Unusual Antler Dwellings Gordon, Bryan C. 1988-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64764 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64764/48678 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64764 ARCTIC; Vol. 41 No. 2 (1988): June: 91–166; 160-161 1923-1245 0004-0843 Antlers Artifacts Caribou Copper Eskimos Houses Inuit archaeology Bathurst Inlet region Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1988 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:53Z Nadlok, or "crossing-place-of-deer" in Bathurst Inuit dialect, is an island camp and herd interception site found in 1982 by Douglas Stern 100 km south of Bathurst Inlet, Northwest Territories. In the "Little Ice Age" (1450-1700 A.D.), a few families of coastal Copper Inuit appear to have abandoned a declining seal resource on the coast for predictable and available inland caribou hunting at Nadlok. A simple tent camp, as seen in the architecturally sterile bottom level dating 1400 A.D., evolved into 15 sturdy stone and antler dwellings occupied in winter. . Scattered between the floors were late prehistoric Copper Inuit tools, art and trade goods. Men's and women's tools include an ornately engraved antler knife handle, ulus, harpoons, arrows, copper fishhooks with bone lures, needle cases, whittling knives, engraved pendants, fire-starting kits and awls. There were some 40 000 bones, mostly the remains of caribou, but also of birds, fish and muskox. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bathurst Inlet eskimo* inuit muskox Northwest Territories Nunavut University of Calgary Journal Hosting Nunavut Northwest Territories Bathurst Inlet ENVELOPE(-108.051,-108.051,66.840,66.840) ARCTIC 41 2 |
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Nadlok, or "crossing-place-of-deer" in Bathurst Inuit dialect, is an island camp and herd interception site found in 1982 by Douglas Stern 100 km south of Bathurst Inlet, Northwest Territories. In the "Little Ice Age" (1450-1700 A.D.), a few families of coastal Copper Inuit appear to have abandoned a declining seal resource on the coast for predictable and available inland caribou hunting at Nadlok. A simple tent camp, as seen in the architecturally sterile bottom level dating 1400 A.D., evolved into 15 sturdy stone and antler dwellings occupied in winter. . Scattered between the floors were late prehistoric Copper Inuit tools, art and trade goods. Men's and women's tools include an ornately engraved antler knife handle, ulus, harpoons, arrows, copper fishhooks with bone lures, needle cases, whittling knives, engraved pendants, fire-starting kits and awls. There were some 40 000 bones, mostly the remains of caribou, but also of birds, fish and muskox. . |
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