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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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- 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 ...
Dorset culture | Arctic Archaeology & Prehistoric Artifacts
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 …
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 …
The Dorset People | Canadian Museum of History
网页The new way of life that developed at this time is known as the Dorset culture. It was named in 1925 by Diamond Jenness, an anthropologist at the National Museum of Canada, who examined a collection of artifacts …
Preserved in Legends and Ice: What Led to the …
网页2018年9月15日 · Before the Inuit’s ancestors conquered the Arctic region of what we now call Canada and Greenland, there is evidence of another remarkable Paleo-Eskimo culture– the Dorset. Soon after the arrival of …
Disappearance of Dorset Culture | Canadian Museum …
网页Dorset culture came to an end at a time when the Dorset people had expanded to a larger area than they had ever occupied, were producing vast numbers of carvings and other works of art, and were building large …
Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on Arctic's Earliest People
网页2014年8月28日 · And over time, the Paleo-Eskimos developed an almost cult-like way of life, known as the Dorset culture. The Dorset developed an intense tradition of shamanistic art, seen in the human and...
Dorset culture | Wikiwand
网页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 …
Recent Developments in the Dorset Culture Area
网页The Dorset culture was first recognized and described by Jenness (1925), on the basis of materials in the National Museum of Canada that had been excavated by Eskimos at …
