A Southeastern Baffin Thule House with Ruin Island Characteristics

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Maxwell, Moreau S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1981
• Subjects: Archaeology; Human migration; Inuit; Thule culture; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Islands; Arctic; Foxe Basin; Frobisher Bay; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Lake Harbour; Lancaster Sound; Baffin; Canadian Archipelago; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65566

A prehistoric house depression excavated on the southeastern coast of Baffin Island near Lake Harbour belongs stylistically to an early phase of the Thule Period. However, features such as the rectangular shape, interior open-fire kitchens, and initial absence of a sleeping platform are more charact...