Overview
- 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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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
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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