Preliminary Geomorphological Study of a Newly Discovered Dorset Culture Site on Melville Island, N.W.T.

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Henoch, W.E.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1964
• Subjects: Energy budgets; Heat transmission; Movement; Ocean currents; Sea ice; Temporal variations; Winds; East Greenland Current; Arctic Ocean; Arctic; Greenland; McCormick; McCormick Inlet; Dorset culture; East Greenland; east greenland current; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66544

Describes a prehistoric dwelling found at McCormick Inlet in 1962. Location of the site at 1.75 m above high water and its age, estimated at 1150-1740 yr from radiocarbon dating of moss, indicate negligible land emergence during the last one and a half millennia. Prehistoric sites recorded by other explorers on the island are also noted and mapped.