Prehistory of Newfoundlandhunter-gatherers
Extinctions or adaptations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3918802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M A P Renouf (Memorial University of Newfoundland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-420 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.1999.9980420 |
| OpenAlex | W2039050964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 17 |
The island of Newfoundland was occupied by a series of aboriginal cultures, beginning with the Maritime Archaic Indians (c. 4500–3200 bp), followed by the Groswater Palaeoeskimos (c. 2800–1900 bp), Dorset Palaeoeskimos (c 2000–1200 bp), Recent Indians (c. 2000–300 bp) and ending with the historic Beothuk Indians (European contact to ad 1829). In an early and influential paper Tuck and Pastore (1985) suggested that Newfoundland's long occupation sequence was a series of extinctions which they linked to the limitations of the Newfoundland island ecosystem. Although the extinction model was presented as a hypothesis it has since become the predominant interpretive framework for insular Newfoundland prehistory. This paper presents an alternative model which suggests that prehistoric hunter‐gatherers would have ameliorated the unpredictability of the insular Newfoundland resources by maintaining connections with related groups in mainland Labrador. Thus the discontinuities in the archaeological record are interpreted as population shifts rather than extinctions. Keywords: Hunter‐gathererprehistoric economyNewfoundlandisland ecosystem Notes Throughout this paper the term 'Newfoundland' refers to the island of Newfoundland, not to the 'Province of Newfoundland', which includes mainland Labrador
Archaeology · Geography · Hunter-gatherer · Prehistory · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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Long-term Coastal Occupancy between Cape Charles and Trunmore Bay, Labrador
Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador
Papers of the Twenty-First Algonquian Conference
The Archaeo-Ethnology of Hunter-Gatherers or the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record in Archaeology
An Archaic Cemetery at Port Au Choix, Newfoundland
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |