James Woollett
Biographic Data
| ID | 93687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Woollett |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Woollett |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLLETT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8535-1592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
(Re)penser la relation au territoire: Vers une archéologie de l’habiter
La posture endossée par les chercheur.es structure les problématiques qu’il.elle.s abordent et leurs choix quant aux approches employées pour les étudier. Cet article offre une réflexion sur l’importance de questionner nos postures paradigmatiques, qui structurent notre rapport à la recherche. Elle a émergé de recherches menées en collaboration avec le Gouvernement du Nunatsiavut et la communauté de Nain (Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada). Celles-ci…
The Wide Lens in Archaeology
This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…
Flair of the Dog The Philistine Consumption of Canines
This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…
A 550-Year Record of the Disturbance History of White Spruce Forests Near Two Inuit Settlements in Labrador, Canada
We assessed historical variations in environmental parameters affecting tree growth during the last 550 years in north-central Labrador, Canada, using dendroecological analysis of white spruce forests near two Inuit settlements. Tree surveys of both modern and archaeological wood samples provided data for dendroecological analysis of growth patterns and natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes and enabled more-refined dendrochronological dat…
Assessing the effects of climate change and land use on northern Labrador forest stands based on paleoecological data
We reconstructed the late Holocene vegetation of the Nain region (northern Labrador, northeastern Canada) in order to assess the influence of climate and historic land use on past shifts in forest composition. Chronostratigraphy was used in combination with macrofossil and pollen data from monoliths sampled from four peatlands. Paleoecological reconstructions produced a vegetation history spanning 4900 years for the Nain region that is largely co…
A geochemical analysis of 18th-century Inuit communal house floors in northern Labrador
Micromorphological Analyses of Inuit Communal Sod Houses in Northern Labrador, Canada
As part of ongoing multidisciplinary research at Uivak Point (HjCl‐09) and Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg‐8) in Labrador, Canada, undisturbed soil samples were collected in order to document archaeological sediments and examine anthropogenic processes within Inuit sod houses through soil micromorphology. These structures consist of multifamily winter dwellings used in Labrador and Greenland, which have been variously associated with Inuit social changes follo…
Géoarchéologie de maisons multifamiliales inuit de la période de contact au Labrador
Afin de documenter davantage la configuration interne de maisons multifamiliales inuit du Labrador et l'impact anthropique de leur occupation sur la matrice sédimentaire, une combinaison d'analyses micromorphologiques et géochimiques a été mise en oeuvre dans l'étude de trois habitations multifamiliales situées sur les sites archéologiques d'Oakes Bay-1 et d'Uivak Point 1. À l'issue des analyses, plusieurs indicateurs anthropiques associés à l'oc…
Paleoecological perspectives on landscape history and anthropogenic impacts at Uivak Point, Labrador, since AD 1400
Archaeological and paleoecological investigations were undertaken at Uivak Point (HjCl-09 located in Okak Bay, Labrador), a site that consists of a winter village comprising the ruins of nine sod houses and a number of tent ring, cache, and other structures. The site was occupied during the late 18th to early 19th centuries, although the immediate area has been used by many cultural groups spanning from Labrador’s early prehistory into the 20th c…
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …
Napâttuit: Wood use by Labrador Inuit and its impact on the forest landscape
In Nunatsiavut, recent studies have shown that major changes to forest tundra ecosystems have occurred over the past two centuries, including a shift in the abundance and range of tree/shrub species. Although this trend could be due to the highly variable climate of this period, we should also consider anthropogenic factors, such as wood harvesting, when conducting ecological studies of forest dynamics. Based on a literature review, interviews, a…
Environmental Change and Terrestrial Resource Use by the T hule and I nuit of L abrador, C anada
The object of this study is to document how the I nuit on the northern coast of L abrador, C anada used terrestrial resources such as peat and wood during the L ittle I ce A ge ( LIA ; A.D. 1500–1870). Paleoecological investigations consisting of pollen and macrofossil analyses were undertaken in conjunction with archaeological excavations at the I nuit winter settlement sites of O akes B ay 1, located in the N ain region of north‐central L abrad…
Oakes Bay 1: A Preliminary Reconstruction of a Labrador Inuit Seal Hunting Economy in the Context of Climate Change
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):245–259, 2010 This paper presents results of recent archaeological research at the site of Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg-08), on Dog Island, Labrador, dated from the late 17th to late 18th century. Analyses of faunal remains provide a means of reconstructing the site's subsistence economy. The site's inhabitants practiced a very consistent mode of hunting throughout this time period, depending heavily …
Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland
Multidisciplinary approaches are used to examine possible changes in North Atlantic sea-ice cover, in the context of seal hunting, during the period of the Norse occupation of Greenland (ca. 985–1500). Information from Iceland is also used in order to amplify and illuminate the situation in Greenland. Data are drawn mainly from zooarchaeological analyses, but written records of climate and sea-ice variations, as well as paleoclimatic data sets ar…
Labrador Inuit Subsistence in the Context of Environmental Change: An Initial Landscape History Perspective
In this article, I examine the subsistence economy of the contact-period Labrador Inuit (17th to 19th century) to investigate the relationships of elements of specific cultural changes to environmental change, the effects of cultural interactions, and internal social processes. I apply paleoclimate and sea-ice records and zooarchaeological studies of life history and seasonality of ecologically sensitive species to reconstruct histories of change…
Palaeoecological Implications of Archaeological Seal Bone Assemblages: Case Studies from Labrador and Baffin Island
In recent years, increasing scientific attention has been paid to sea mammals as biological indicators of Arctic environmental change. The usefulness of animals such as ringed seal (Phoca hispida), harp seal (Phoca groenlandica), bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), and harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) as indicator species is due to the close relationship of their range, reproductive cycles, and life histories to sea ice. The behaviour and distributi…
Living in the Narrows: Subsistence economy and culture change in Labrador Inuit society during the contact period
This paper presents zooarchaeological analyses of several contact period Inuit winter settlement sites in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. These sites span the history of Inuit settlement in the region (from about ad 1600 to 1900) and provide an ideal opportunity to examine the relationship of changing patterns of Inuit settlement organization to changing subsistence, social relations and environmental fluctuations. Two of the most conspicuous changes o…
Regional zooarchaeology and global change: Problems and potentials
Zooarchaeology is a potentially critical tool for the reconstruction of past regional landscapes. The sub‐field is increasingly being asked to contribute to long‐term studies of human interaction with the environment associated with national and international investigations of past and future global change. Inter‐site comparison of animal bone collections (archaeofaunas) is central to such regional approaches. However, zooarchaeologists have iden…
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …
Labrador Inuit Subsistence in the Context of Environmental Change: An Initial Landscape History Perspective
In this article, I examine the subsistence economy of the contact-period Labrador Inuit (17th to 19th century) to investigate the relationships of elements of specific cultural changes to environmental change, the effects of cultural interactions, and internal social processes. I apply paleoclimate and sea-ice records and zooarchaeological studies of life history and seasonality of ecologically sensitive species to reconstruct histories of change…
Regional zooarchaeology and global change: Problems and potentials
Zooarchaeology is a potentially critical tool for the reconstruction of past regional landscapes. The sub‐field is increasingly being asked to contribute to long‐term studies of human interaction with the environment associated with national and international investigations of past and future global change. Inter‐site comparison of animal bone collections (archaeofaunas) is central to such regional approaches. However, zooarchaeologists have iden…
Living in the Narrows: Subsistence economy and culture change in Labrador Inuit society during the contact period
This paper presents zooarchaeological analyses of several contact period Inuit winter settlement sites in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. These sites span the history of Inuit settlement in the region (from about ad 1600 to 1900) and provide an ideal opportunity to examine the relationship of changing patterns of Inuit settlement organization to changing subsistence, social relations and environmental fluctuations. Two of the most conspicuous changes o…
Oakes Bay 1: A Preliminary Reconstruction of a Labrador Inuit Seal Hunting Economy in the Context of Climate Change
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):245–259, 2010 This paper presents results of recent archaeological research at the site of Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg-08), on Dog Island, Labrador, dated from the late 17th to late 18th century. Analyses of faunal remains provide a means of reconstructing the site's subsistence economy. The site's inhabitants practiced a very consistent mode of hunting throughout this time period, depending heavily …
Environmental Change and Terrestrial Resource Use by the T hule and I nuit of L abrador, C anada
The object of this study is to document how the I nuit on the northern coast of L abrador, C anada used terrestrial resources such as peat and wood during the L ittle I ce A ge ( LIA ; A.D. 1500–1870). Paleoecological investigations consisting of pollen and macrofossil analyses were undertaken in conjunction with archaeological excavations at the I nuit winter settlement sites of O akes B ay 1, located in the N ain region of north‐central L abrad…
Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland
Multidisciplinary approaches are used to examine possible changes in North Atlantic sea-ice cover, in the context of seal hunting, during the period of the Norse occupation of Greenland (ca. 985–1500). Information from Iceland is also used in order to amplify and illuminate the situation in Greenland. Data are drawn mainly from zooarchaeological analyses, but written records of climate and sea-ice variations, as well as paleoclimatic data sets ar…
Napâttuit: Wood use by Labrador Inuit and its impact on the forest landscape
In Nunatsiavut, recent studies have shown that major changes to forest tundra ecosystems have occurred over the past two centuries, including a shift in the abundance and range of tree/shrub species. Although this trend could be due to the highly variable climate of this period, we should also consider anthropogenic factors, such as wood harvesting, when conducting ecological studies of forest dynamics. Based on a literature review, interviews, a…
A geochemical analysis of 18th-century Inuit communal house floors in northern Labrador
Micromorphological Analyses of Inuit Communal Sod Houses in Northern Labrador, Canada
As part of ongoing multidisciplinary research at Uivak Point (HjCl‐09) and Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg‐8) in Labrador, Canada, undisturbed soil samples were collected in order to document archaeological sediments and examine anthropogenic processes within Inuit sod houses through soil micromorphology. These structures consist of multifamily winter dwellings used in Labrador and Greenland, which have been variously associated with Inuit social changes follo…
A 550-Year Record of the Disturbance History of White Spruce Forests Near Two Inuit Settlements in Labrador, Canada
We assessed historical variations in environmental parameters affecting tree growth during the last 550 years in north-central Labrador, Canada, using dendroecological analysis of white spruce forests near two Inuit settlements. Tree surveys of both modern and archaeological wood samples provided data for dendroecological analysis of growth patterns and natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes and enabled more-refined dendrochronological dat…
Regional zooarchaeology and global change: Problems and potentials
Zooarchaeology is a potentially critical tool for the reconstruction of past regional landscapes. The sub‐field is increasingly being asked to contribute to long‐term studies of human interaction with the environment associated with national and international investigations of past and future global change. Inter‐site comparison of animal bone collections (archaeofaunas) is central to such regional approaches. However, zooarchaeologists have iden…
Living in the Narrows: Subsistence economy and culture change in Labrador Inuit society during the contact period
This paper presents zooarchaeological analyses of several contact period Inuit winter settlement sites in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. These sites span the history of Inuit settlement in the region (from about ad 1600 to 1900) and provide an ideal opportunity to examine the relationship of changing patterns of Inuit settlement organization to changing subsistence, social relations and environmental fluctuations. Two of the most conspicuous changes o…
Palaeoecological Implications of Archaeological Seal Bone Assemblages: Case Studies from Labrador and Baffin Island
In recent years, increasing scientific attention has been paid to sea mammals as biological indicators of Arctic environmental change. The usefulness of animals such as ringed seal (Phoca hispida), harp seal (Phoca groenlandica), bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), and harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) as indicator species is due to the close relationship of their range, reproductive cycles, and life histories to sea ice. The behaviour and distributi…
Labrador Inuit Subsistence in the Context of Environmental Change: An Initial Landscape History Perspective
In this article, I examine the subsistence economy of the contact-period Labrador Inuit (17th to 19th century) to investigate the relationships of elements of specific cultural changes to environmental change, the effects of cultural interactions, and internal social processes. I apply paleoclimate and sea-ice records and zooarchaeological studies of life history and seasonality of ecologically sensitive species to reconstruct histories of change…
Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland
Multidisciplinary approaches are used to examine possible changes in North Atlantic sea-ice cover, in the context of seal hunting, during the period of the Norse occupation of Greenland (ca. 985–1500). Information from Iceland is also used in order to amplify and illuminate the situation in Greenland. Data are drawn mainly from zooarchaeological analyses, but written records of climate and sea-ice variations, as well as paleoclimatic data sets ar…
Oakes Bay 1: A Preliminary Reconstruction of a Labrador Inuit Seal Hunting Economy in the Context of Climate Change
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):245–259, 2010 This paper presents results of recent archaeological research at the site of Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg-08), on Dog Island, Labrador, dated from the late 17th to late 18th century. Analyses of faunal remains provide a means of reconstructing the site's subsistence economy. The site's inhabitants practiced a very consistent mode of hunting throughout this time period, depending heavily …
Environmental Change and Terrestrial Resource Use by the T hule and I nuit of L abrador, C anada
The object of this study is to document how the I nuit on the northern coast of L abrador, C anada used terrestrial resources such as peat and wood during the L ittle I ce A ge ( LIA ; A.D. 1500–1870). Paleoecological investigations consisting of pollen and macrofossil analyses were undertaken in conjunction with archaeological excavations at the I nuit winter settlement sites of O akes B ay 1, located in the N ain region of north‐central L abrad…
Napâttuit: Wood use by Labrador Inuit and its impact on the forest landscape
In Nunatsiavut, recent studies have shown that major changes to forest tundra ecosystems have occurred over the past two centuries, including a shift in the abundance and range of tree/shrub species. Although this trend could be due to the highly variable climate of this period, we should also consider anthropogenic factors, such as wood harvesting, when conducting ecological studies of forest dynamics. Based on a literature review, interviews, a…
Paleoecological perspectives on landscape history and anthropogenic impacts at Uivak Point, Labrador, since AD 1400
Archaeological and paleoecological investigations were undertaken at Uivak Point (HjCl-09 located in Okak Bay, Labrador), a site that consists of a winter village comprising the ruins of nine sod houses and a number of tent ring, cache, and other structures. The site was occupied during the late 18th to early 19th centuries, although the immediate area has been used by many cultural groups spanning from Labrador’s early prehistory into the 20th c…
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …
Assessing the effects of climate change and land use on northern Labrador forest stands based on paleoecological data
We reconstructed the late Holocene vegetation of the Nain region (northern Labrador, northeastern Canada) in order to assess the influence of climate and historic land use on past shifts in forest composition. Chronostratigraphy was used in combination with macrofossil and pollen data from monoliths sampled from four peatlands. Paleoecological reconstructions produced a vegetation history spanning 4900 years for the Nain region that is largely co…
A geochemical analysis of 18th-century Inuit communal house floors in northern Labrador
Micromorphological Analyses of Inuit Communal Sod Houses in Northern Labrador, Canada
As part of ongoing multidisciplinary research at Uivak Point (HjCl‐09) and Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg‐8) in Labrador, Canada, undisturbed soil samples were collected in order to document archaeological sediments and examine anthropogenic processes within Inuit sod houses through soil micromorphology. These structures consist of multifamily winter dwellings used in Labrador and Greenland, which have been variously associated with Inuit social changes follo…
Géoarchéologie de maisons multifamiliales inuit de la période de contact au Labrador
Afin de documenter davantage la configuration interne de maisons multifamiliales inuit du Labrador et l'impact anthropique de leur occupation sur la matrice sédimentaire, une combinaison d'analyses micromorphologiques et géochimiques a été mise en oeuvre dans l'étude de trois habitations multifamiliales situées sur les sites archéologiques d'Oakes Bay-1 et d'Uivak Point 1. À l'issue des analyses, plusieurs indicateurs anthropiques associés à l'oc…
The Wide Lens in Archaeology
This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…
Flair of the Dog The Philistine Consumption of Canines
This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…
A 550-Year Record of the Disturbance History of White Spruce Forests Near Two Inuit Settlements in Labrador, Canada
We assessed historical variations in environmental parameters affecting tree growth during the last 550 years in north-central Labrador, Canada, using dendroecological analysis of white spruce forests near two Inuit settlements. Tree surveys of both modern and archaeological wood samples provided data for dendroecological analysis of growth patterns and natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes and enabled more-refined dendrochronological dat…
(Re)penser la relation au territoire: Vers une archéologie de l’habiter
La posture endossée par les chercheur.es structure les problématiques qu’il.elle.s abordent et leurs choix quant aux approches employées pour les étudier. Cet article offre une réflexion sur l’importance de questionner nos postures paradigmatiques, qui structurent notre rapport à la recherche. Elle a émergé de recherches menées en collaboration avec le Gouvernement du Nunatsiavut et la communauté de Nain (Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada). Celles-ci…
Geography (16 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (11 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 works) · Physical geography (8 works) · Bay (6 works) · Biology (6 works)