Permafrost-preserved materials from two Saqqaq sites (ca. 3900-2600 BP) in Disko Bay, West Greenland, have provided unique insight into woodworking in the early Arctic Small Tool tradition. Use of driftwood played a decisive role in the complex material culture of Saqqaq society, and analyses of more than 15,000 artifacts, fragments, and wood shavings enable us to reconstruct the woodworking processes and all categories of toolkits. This article presents an archaeological reconstruction of the remarkably diverse and technologically advanced Saqqaq hunting toolkit, which includes darts, harpoons, lances, and bows and arrows—among the earliest preserved specimens in the New World.Les vestiges trouvés lors des fouilles de deux sites du Saqqaq ...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
Because wooden artifacts are rarely preserved in ‘stone age’ archaeological contexts, it is difficul...
The Saqqaq Culture site Qeqertasussuk (2400-1400 BC) is situated in the south eastern corner of Disk...
Prehistory in Permafrost: Investigations at the Saqqaq Site, Qeqertasussuk, Disco Bay, West Greenlan
Inspired by ethnographic analogies and interpretations of late Dorset symbolic representations an at...
Inspired by ethnographic analogies and interpretations of late Dorset symbolic representations an at...
Although the natural availability and quality of wood is variable across the Arctic, there is great ...
Harpoons are an essential part of the hunting toolkit amongst Inuit and have been integral to the ma...
Harpoons are an essential part of the hunting toolkit amongst Inuit and have been integral to the ma...
International audienceBone tools from Tayara (KbFk-7, Nunavik) revisited by a technological study Ta...
International audienceBone tools from Tayara (KbFk-7, Nunavik) revisited by a technological study Ta...
Durant les années soixante, des reconnaissances archéologiques à grande échelle furent conduites par...
Portable, composite tool kits have been essential to the prehistoric dispersals of people around the...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
Because wooden artifacts are rarely preserved in ‘stone age’ archaeological contexts, it is difficul...
The Saqqaq Culture site Qeqertasussuk (2400-1400 BC) is situated in the south eastern corner of Disk...
Prehistory in Permafrost: Investigations at the Saqqaq Site, Qeqertasussuk, Disco Bay, West Greenlan
Inspired by ethnographic analogies and interpretations of late Dorset symbolic representations an at...
Inspired by ethnographic analogies and interpretations of late Dorset symbolic representations an at...
Although the natural availability and quality of wood is variable across the Arctic, there is great ...
Harpoons are an essential part of the hunting toolkit amongst Inuit and have been integral to the ma...
Harpoons are an essential part of the hunting toolkit amongst Inuit and have been integral to the ma...
International audienceBone tools from Tayara (KbFk-7, Nunavik) revisited by a technological study Ta...
International audienceBone tools from Tayara (KbFk-7, Nunavik) revisited by a technological study Ta...
Durant les années soixante, des reconnaissances archéologiques à grande échelle furent conduites par...
Portable, composite tool kits have been essential to the prehistoric dispersals of people around the...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-scale r...