A Few Problems Elucidated . And New Questions Raised by Recent Dorset Finds in the North Baffin Island Region

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Mary-Rousselière, O.M.I., G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1979
• Subjects: Artifacts; Dorset culture; History; Inuit; Kayaks; Sleds; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Hall Beach; Kayak; Arctic; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65654

Several recent discoveries, made possible by exceptional conditions of preservation at the Nunguvik site (North Baffin Island), provide new information, among others, on the kayak and sled of the Dorset culture, and suggest that the Dorset people used skis. An engraved bone plate from the Dorset sit...