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- Title
Nouvelle chronologie de deux sites paleoesquimaux d'lvujivik (Nunavik).
- Authors
Nagy, Murielle
- Abstract
This article presents the results of 36 new radiocarbon dates obtained to determine whether the Pita (KcFr-5) and Ohituk (KcFr-3A) sites of Ivujivik belong to the so-called Pre- Dorset/Dorset transition period, as concluded from previous research, or represent occupations during periods corresponding to either culture. Taking into consideration these dates and those obtained earlier, it appears that the sites were indeed occupied between 800 and 400 BC. However, the Pita site was mainly visited during the Pre-Dorset period and one of its dates is the oldest one obtained so far for Nunavik. As for the Ohituk site, it was occupied throughout the Dorset period. Because the dates from both sites cover a period of over three millennia, it is concluded that the archaeological remains come from a palimpsest of occupations and cannot represent a transition period.
- Subjects
NUNAVIK (Quebec); DORSET culture; RADIOCARBON dating; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations
- Publication
Études Inuit Studies, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
0701-1008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038145ar