Overview

Newfoundland lies at the intersection of arctic and more temperate regions and, commensurate with this geography, populations of two Amerindian and two Paleoeskimo cultural traditions occupied Port au Choix, in northern Newfoundland, Canada, for centuries and millennia. Over the past two decades The Port au Choix Archaeology Project has sought a comparative understanding of how these different cultures, each with their particular origin and historical trajectory, adapted to the changing physical and social environments, impacted their physical surroundings, and created cultural landscapes. This volume brings together the research of Renouf, her colleagues and her students who together employ multiple perspectives and methods to provide a detailed reconstruction and understanding of the long-term history of Port au Choix. Although geographically focussed on a northern coastal area, this volume has wider implications for understanding archaeological landscapes, human-environment interactions and hunter-gatherer societies.

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Author:   M. A. P. Renouf
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2011 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.661kg
ISBN:  

9781441983237

ISBN 10:   1441983236
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   12 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Archaeology at Port au Choix M.A.P. Renouf Chapter 2 By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives on Port au Choix Archaeology Trevor Bell and M.A.P. Renouf Chapter 3 Across the Tickle: the Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and the Maritime Archaic Indian Mortuary Landscape M.A.P. Renouf and Trevor Bell Chapter 4 Ritual Activity and the Formation of Faunal Assemblages at Two Groswater Palaeoeskimo Sites at Port au Choix Patricia J. Wells Chapter 5 Mobility, Curation, and Exchange as Factors in the Distribution of the Phillip's Garden West Groswater Toolkit Karen Ryan Chapter 6 A Sheltered Life: Inner Cove Groswater Palaeoeskimo Occupation at Port au Choix Kendra D. Wheatley Chapter 7 On the Headland: Dorset Seal Harvesting at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix M.A.P. Renouf Chapter 8 The Changing Nature and Function of Phillip's Garden: a Diachronic Perspective John C. Erwin Chapter 9 Settlement Size and Structural Complexity: A Case Study in Geophysical Survey at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix Edward J.H. Eastaugh and Jeremy Taylor Chapter 10 Down the Labrador: Ramah Chert Use at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix Robert J. Anstey and M.A.P. Renouf Chapter 11 Whitecoats, Beaters and Turners: Dorset Palaeoeskimo Harp Seal Hunting from Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix Maribeth S. Murray Chapter 12 Aspects of Dorset Palaeoeskimo Mortuary Behaviour on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland Stuart C. Brown Chapter 13 In the Woods: The Cow Head Complex Occupation of the Gould Site, Port au Choix M.A.P. Renouf, Michael A. Teal, Trevor Bell Chapter 14 The Life History of Port au Choix Landscapes M.A.P. Renouf Appendix Radiocarbon dates from Port au Choix M.A.P. Renouf Index

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From the book reviews: The volume is organised into fourteen chapters bracketed by an introduction and a conclusion written by Renouf ... . This volume is recommended for students of archaeology as a useful text on culture history, methodology, and ways of thinking about data sets. I recommend this volume to researchers for the model or template it provides when planning research programmes and setting research standards. (Marianne P. Stopp, Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal Canadien D'Archeologie, Issue 37, 2013)

Author Information

Dr. Priscilla Renouf, Canada Research Chair of North Atlantic Archaeology, has conducted research in Labrador, Newfoundland, Arctic Norway and Greenland. For the past several years her research has been situated in Port au Choix, northwestern Newfoundland, where she is reconstructing 5,500 years of human adaptation to a changing environment. Dr. Renouf co-founded an international research group, called LINK, which consists of a dozen archaeologists working in North Atlantic areas: Labrador, Greenland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway. Their purpose is to integrate social and natural science research to address questions of how past human societies in the North Atlantic reacted to long- and short-term climate fluctuations. Dr. Renouf is committed to communicating the results of her research to the public as well as the academic community. She continues to achieve this through videos, exhibits, publications and public presentations.

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