The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix: Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland

327 Pages·2011·10.16 MB·English

by  M. A. P. Renouf (auth.), M. A. P. Renouf (eds.)

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
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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.
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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
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