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The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY Series Editor: Jelmer Eerkens, University of California, Davis, CA, USA Founding Editor: Roy S. Dickens, Jr., Late of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA For more information about this series, please visit the Series Homepage at: www.springer.com/series/6090 M.A.P. Renouf Editor The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland Editor M.A.P. Renouf Department of Archaeology Memorial University St. John’s, NL Canada, A1C 5S7 This book is dedicated to Elmer Harp, Jr. and Elaine Groves Harp, together they started what we have continued. Acknowledgements A number of people greatly helped me with this book. I am indebted to Charles Conway, cartographer with Memorial University Geography Department, for drafting the figures and working tirelessly to ensure their high quality. I am grateful to Chris Hammond, photographer with Memorial University Department of Marketing and Communications, who took many of the artefact photographs, and to Dominique Lavers and Patty Wells, Port au Choix Archaeology Project, who took additional artefact photographs. Larry Nolan of Data Solutions designed our digital data c ollection and management system, without which the Port au Choix Archaeology Project could not function. Thanks to Dominique Lavers who calibrated the radio- carbon dates for the Appendix and copy-edited the text of the entire book. A special thanks to Robert Anstey, Port au Choix Archaeology Project, who was my primary copy-editor and who made sure that all the bibliographies were stylistically consis- tent and error-free. I appreciate the time and dedication of many colleagues who reviewed various chapters of this book. Thanks to all the funders of the Port au Choix Archaeology Project, without whose support there would be nothing to write about: Canada Research Chairs Program; Canada Foundation for Innovation; Memorial University; Parks Canada; Provincial Archaeology Office, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; Research and Development Council of Newfoundland and Labrador; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. And thanks to Roger, who makes it all possible. vii Contents 1 Introduction: Archaeology at Port au Choix ........................................ 1 M.A.P. Renouf 2 By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives on Port au Choix Archaeology ......................................... 21 Trevor Bell and M.A.P. Renouf 3 Across the Tickle: The Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and the Maritime Archaic Indian Mortuary Landscape .................... 43 M.A.P. Renouf and Trevor Bell 4 Ritual Activity and the Formation of Faunal Assemblages at Two Groswater Palaeoeskimo Sites at Port au Choix ..................... 65 Patricia J. Wells 5 Mobility, Curation, and Exchange as Factors in the Distribution of the Phillip’s Garden West Groswater Toolkit .................................. 91 Karen Ryan 6 A Sheltered Life: Inner Cove Groswater Palaeoeskimo Occupation at Port au Choix ...................................................................................... 117 Kendra Stiwich 7 On the Headland: Dorset Seal Harvesting at Phillip’s Garden, Port au Choix ........................................................................................... 131 M.A.P. Renouf 8 The Changing Nature and Function of Phillip’s Garden: A Diachronic Perspective ....................................................................... 161 John C. Erwin 9 Settlement Size and Structural Complexity: A Case Study in Geophysical Survey at Phillip’s Garden, Port au Choix ................. 179 Edward J.H. Eastaugh and Jeremy Taylor ix

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