Prehistory in the Dismal Lake Area, N.W.T., Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Harp, Jr., Elmer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1958
• Subjects: Dorset culture; Independence I culture; Arctic; Canada; Coronation Gulf; Greenland; Indian; Kamut Lake; Southampton Island; Archeological Survey; eskimo*; musk ox; Sarqaq; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66797

Reports on the summer 1955 archeological survey of the Coronation Gulf area. Test diggings at three sites on Dismal Lake (1:a, 1:b, 2) and one at Kamut Lake yielded numerous chipped and flaked stone implements (knives, scrapers, poin.ts, burins, etc.). The large proportion of microlithic artifacts a...