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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Michele Hayeur
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Kevin P.
dc.contributor.authorNilsen, Gørill
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-21T14:27:43Z
dc.date.available2019-01-21T14:27:43Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-14
dc.description.abstractYarn and textiles recovered from prehistoric Dorset and Thule culture sites in the Eastern Canadian Arctic have raised questions about the extent and timing of indigenous and Norse interaction in the New World, whether the yarn represents technological transfers between Greenland's Norse settlers and the Dorset, or whether these Indigenous Arctic groups had independent fiber technologies before contact with Europeans. However, the extensive use of marine mammals in northern cultural contexts, and the penetration of oils from these animals' tissues into datable terrestrial materials, has posed general problems for reliably dating sites in the Arctic and has raised questions specifically about previous efforts to date these fiber objects. In this paper, we use a recently developed protocol for removing marine mammal organic contaminants entirely from radiocarbon samples, making AMS dating possible and reliable for Arctic research. This study uses those protocols to directly date a suite of woven and spun animal fiber artifacts from five Dorset and Thule archaeological sites in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Directly dating these artifacts with marine mammal oils removed helps to answer questions about Norse contact with Dorset and Thule communities, sheds new light on the topic of indigenous fiber technologies in the North, and raises new questions about European contacts with the people of the North American Arctic prior to sustained efforts at colonization after the 18th century.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation Arctic Social Sciences, Polar Programsen_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.005> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.005</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSmith, M.H., Smith, K.P. & Nilsen, G. (2018). Dorset, Norse, or Thule? – Technological Transfers, Marine Mammal Contamination, and AMS dating of Spun Yarn and Textiles from the Eastern Canadian Arctic. <i>Journal of Archaeological Science, 96</i>, 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.005en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1590374
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.005
dc.identifier.issn0305-4403
dc.identifier.issn1095-9238
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14501
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Archaeological Science
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031830092X?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Archeology: 090::Other archeology: 099en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Arkeologi: 090::Annen arkeologi: 099en_US
dc.subjectAMS datingen_US
dc.subjectMarine mammal oil contaminationen_US
dc.subjectPre-treatment methods for AMS datingen_US
dc.subjectSpun yarnen_US
dc.subjectTextilesen_US
dc.subjectCanadian eastern arcticen_US
dc.subjectNorse Greenlanden_US
dc.titleDorset, Norse, or Thule? Technological transfers, marine mammal contamination, and AMS dating of spun yarn and textiles from the Eastern Canadian Arcticen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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