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Peopling the Pre-Dorset Past

其他書名	A Multi-scalar Study of Early Arctic Lithic Technology and Seasonal Land Use Patterns on Southern Baffin Island
出版	McMaster University, 2003
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1D0EywAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation aims to identify and understand the seasonal, subsistence, and social contexts of lithic tool production, use, and discard amongst the Pre-Dorset peoples inhabiting southern Baffin Island. Lithic artifact assemblages from four coastal and three inland site components are examined for patterns of variability that can be used to address two interrelated research problems. The first focuses on understanding functional differences between Pre-Dorset inland and coastal sites. While Arctic archaeologists generally believe the Pre-Dorset followed a season round structured by inland and coastal activities, comparative analyses to explore how sites in these locales were used and when they were occupied have not been conducted. The second problem seeks to study variability as though "people mattered." Current analyses of Pre-Dorset culture focus largely on culture historical issues, thus there is little sense of who these people were.