A MULTIVARIATE TAPHONOMIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MIDDEN FORMATION IN THULE INUIT CONTEXTS: A CASE STUDY FROM ARCTIC CANADA

• Main Author: Porawski, Tom
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; formation processes; middens; multivariate; taphonomy; Thule Inuit; walrus; zooarchaeology; Canada; Hall Beach; Nunavut; inuit; walrus*
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4244; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/digitizedtheses/article/8044/viewcontent/2023_06_09_Understanding_Midden_Formation_OCR.pdf

Archaeologists attempting to reconstruct local and regional Thule subsistence behaviour place great emphasis on faunal assemblages recovered from Thule semisubterranean house structures and their associated middens (refuse dumps). Despite the importance of this dataset, limited attention has been gi...