The Pembroke Site
Thule Inuit Migrants on Southern Victoria Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16865896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Max Friesen (0000-0002-8622-3883), L E Y Norman (0000-0002-5718-6032) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ARCTIC (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0843 • E-ISSN: 1923-1245 |
| Publisher | The Arctic Institute of North America (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14430/arctic4545 |
| OpenAlex | W2294901816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper presents description and interpretation of the Pembroke site, the earliest known Thule Inuit occupation in the southeastern Victoria Island region, Nunavut. The site has 11 extant dwellings, including five heavy tent rings, five light semi-subterranean dwellings, and a qalgiq (large communal structure). The site’s economy revolved mainly around the acquisition of caribou, Arctic char, and lake trout, with minimal consumption of sea mammals. Radiocarbon dates, reinforced by artifact analyses, indicate an occupation around AD 1400. Based on several lines of evidence, including the extremely small artifact samples, the site is interpreted as having been occupied relatively briefly. It represents the first colonization of the region by Thule people, approximately 200 years after the initial Thule migration from Alaska into the eastern Arctic. Thus, it documents a second migration wave: an expansion of Thule peoples from their initially occupied territories to other, in some ways less optimal, regions
Archaeology · Arctic · Arctic char · Artifact (error) · Biology · Extant taxon · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Geography · Physical geography · Radiocarbon dating · The arctic · Trout · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Oceanography · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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The Thule Migrations as an Analog for the Early Peopling of the Americas
Hunting Technologies and Archaeofaunas
Variations on a Theme
Neo-Inuit strategies for ensuring food security during the Little Ice Age climate change episode, Foxe Basin, Arctic Canada
Radiocarbon Evidence for Fourteenth-Century Dorset Occupation in the Eastern North American Arctic
Ancient men of the Arctic.
Prehistory of the eastern Arctic
The Contest between the Ipiutak, Old Bering Sea, and Birnirk Polities and the Origin of Whaling during the First Millennium A.D. along Bering Strait
Thule Fishing Revisited
Intertaxonomic Variability in Patterns of Bone Density and the Differential Representation of Bovid, Cervid, and Equid Elements in the Archaeological Record
The Timing of the Thule Migration
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |