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The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix

Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland

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Editors:
  1. M. A. P. Renouf

    1. Archaeology Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

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  • Result of 20 years of sustained research in one area
  • Reveals an understanding of settlement and society in prehistoric Newfoundland
  • Has wide and significant implications for hunter-gatherer and landscape studies

Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Archaeology at Port au Choix

    • M. A. P. Renouf
    Pages 1-20

  3. By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives on Port au Choix Archaeology

    • Trevor Bell, M. A. P. Renouf
    Pages 21-41

  4. Across the Tickle: The Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and the Maritime Archaic Indian Mortuary Landscape

    • M. A. P. Renouf, Trevor Bell
    Pages 43-63

  5. Ritual Activity and the Formation of Faunal Assemblages at Two Groswater Palaeoeskimo Sites at Port au Choix

    • Patricia J. Wells
    Pages 65-89

  6. Mobility, Curation, and Exchange as Factors in the Distribution of the Phillip’s Garden West Groswater Toolkit

    • Karen Ryan
    Pages 91-116

  7. A Sheltered Life: Inner Cove Groswater Palaeoeskimo Occupation at Port au Choix

    • Kendra D. Stiwich
    Pages 117-129

  8. On the Headland: Dorset Seal Harvesting at Phillip’s Garden, Port au Choix

    • M. A. P. Renouf
    Pages 131-160

  9. The Changing Nature and Function of Phillip’s Garden: A Diachronic Perspective

    • John C. Erwin
    Pages 161-178

  10. Settlement Size and Structural Complexity: A Case Study in Geophysical Survey at Phillip’s Garden, Port au Choix

    • Edward J. H. Eastaugh, Jeremy Taylor
    Pages 179-188

  11. Down the Labrador: Ramah Chert Use at Phillip’s Garden, Port au Choix

    • Robert J. Anstey, M. A. P. Renouf
    Pages 189-207

  12. Whitecoats, Beaters and Turners: Dorset Palaeoeskimo Harp Seal Hunting from Phillip’s Garden, Port au Choix

    • Maribeth S. Murray
    Pages 209-226

  13. Aspects of Dorset Palaeoeskimo Mortuary Behaviour on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland

    • Stuart C. Brown
    Pages 227-250

  14. In the Woods: The Cow Head Complex Occupation of the Gould Site, Port au Choix

    • M. A. P. Renouf, Michael A. Teal, Trevor Bell
    Pages 251-269

  15. The Life History of Port au Choix Landscapes

    • M. A. P. Renouf
    Pages 271-300

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 301-321
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About this book

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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“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Archaeology Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

    M. A. P. Renouf

About the editor

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix

  • Book Subtitle: Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland

  • Editors: M. A. P. Renouf

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8324-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8323-7Published: 12 April 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2854-1Published: 28 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8324-4Published: 28 March 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 324

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Human Geography, Geology

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