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The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from 500 BCE to between 1000 CE and 1500 CE, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic. The culture and people are named after Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) in Nunavut, Canada, where the first … 展开
In 1925 anthropologist Diamond Jenness received artifacts from Cape Dorset. As they were quite different from those of the Inuit, he speculated that … 展开
Origins
The origins of the Dorset people are not well understood. They may have developed from the previous cultures of Pre-Dorset, 展开The Dorset adaptation was different from that of the whaling-based Thule Inuit. Unlike the Inuit, they rarely hunted land animals, such as polar bears and caribou. They did not use bows or … 展开
• Fortescue, Michael; Jacobson, Steven; Kaplan, Lawrence (1994). Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: With Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language … 展开
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网页Dorset culture, prehistoric culture of Greenland and the Canadian eastern Arctic as far south as present-day Newfoundland. It existed from approximately 800 bc to ad 1300. Its …
Dorset Culture - The Canadian Encyclopedia
- The Dorset were primarily marine-focused hunter-gatherers. Most of the evidence described below relates to hunted animals. However, Dorset people almost certainly had in-depth knowledge of plants and berries. Little evidence for this survives at archaeological sites. This makes it difficult to be certain of the role of plants in Dorset subsistence ...
Preserved in Legends and Ice: What Led to the Extinction of the …
网页2018年9月15日 · Archaeological evidence shows that their culture continued to exist until 1300 AD, however the origins of the Dorset people are not completely understood. Some …
Disappearance of Dorset Culture - Canadian Museum …
网页The Dorset people vanish from the archaeological record at some time between about A.D. 1200 and 1500. Their disappearance is best explained in the historical traditions of the Inuit, whose ancestors observed the final …
Late Dorset | The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic
网页2016年8月3日 · Late Dorset culture represents the final manifestation of the long-lived Paleoeskimo tradition in the eastern Arctic. Late Dorset occupied an enormous region …
Geographic Distribution of the Dorset Culture
网页2023年3月8日 · Early Dorset groups existed throughout the Eastern North American Arctic from Victoria Island in the west to Labrador in the east and Ellesmere Island in the north. Some Dorset groups also lived throughout …
Radiocarbon Evidence for Fourteenth-Century Dorset …
网页One of the most persistent debates in the archaeology of the North American Arctic relates to thirteenth-century AD population distributions and movements. Around this time, the final culture of the long-lived Paleo …
Recent Developments in the Dorset Culture Area
网页While recent excavations in Canada or Greenland have not added significantly to our knowledge of the origin of the Dorset culture or the role it played in the eastern Arctic, …
Environmental Factors in the Evolution of Dorset Culture: A …
网页Despite continued attention from archaeologists the origin of Dorset culture in the Eastern Arctic remains a persistent problem in northern prehistory. The transition from late Pre …
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