Thule Culture Communal Houses in Labrador
From the study of excavations at Saglek Bay, construction of large rectangular sod-stone and whalebone communal houses by the Thule culture Eskimos in northern Labrador apparently began about the latter half of the seventeenth century. There appears to have been a general trend towards communal livi...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65837 2023-05-15T14:19:18+02:00 Thule Culture Communal Houses in Labrador Schledermann, Peter 1976-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65837 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65837/49751 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65837 ARCTIC; Vol. 29 No. 1 (1976): March: 1–64; 27-37 1923-1245 0004-0843 Copper Eskimos info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1976 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:49Z From the study of excavations at Saglek Bay, construction of large rectangular sod-stone and whalebone communal houses by the Thule culture Eskimos in northern Labrador apparently began about the latter half of the seventeenth century. There appears to have been a general trend towards communal living, beginning with the snow-house complex in the central Canadian Arctic during the early part of the Neo-Boreal period. Communal house development in Labrador is seen as an extension of this general trend, serving as an adaptive mechanism in times of social or economic stress. Variation in styles in explained in terms of available construction materials. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic eskimo* Thule culture University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Saglek Bay ENVELOPE(-62.583,-62.583,58.333,58.333) ARCTIC 29 1 |
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From the study of excavations at Saglek Bay, construction of large rectangular sod-stone and whalebone communal houses by the Thule culture Eskimos in northern Labrador apparently began about the latter half of the seventeenth century. There appears to have been a general trend towards communal living, beginning with the snow-house complex in the central Canadian Arctic during the early part of the Neo-Boreal period. Communal house development in Labrador is seen as an extension of this general trend, serving as an adaptive mechanism in times of social or economic stress. Variation in styles in explained in terms of available construction materials. |
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