Digging Deep or Just Scratching the Surface: Challenges and Successes with Labrador Inuit Archaeobotany

Author(s): Cynthia Zutter

Year: 2015

Summary

Over past decade, I have assembled a reasonable variety of archaeobotanical data sets from 17th and 18th century Labrador Inuit sites, which includes both macro- (seeds, wood) and micro-botanicals (phytoliths and starches). The recovery and interpretation of these remains, however, has met with many challenges. I will discuss a number of these challenges along with the successes of this work and provide some guidelines to further archaeobotanical research and other work of this type in the Arctic.

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Digging Deep or Just Scratching the Surface: Challenges and Successes with Labrador Inuit Archaeobotany. Cynthia Zutter. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395750)

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Keywords

General
archaeobotany • Inuit • Labrador

Geographic Keywords
Arctic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -178.41; min lat: 62.104 ; max long: 178.77; max lat: 83.52 ;