Abstract
This chapter synthesizes the cultural themes of Port au Choix’s occupational history from a landscape perspective, including the natural and cultural environments. It first addresses the adaptation of Amerindian and Palaeoeskimo populations to the Newfoundland physical environment through a comparison of subsistence, mobility and site location patterns and then compares site location patterns at Port au Choix. This provides the foundation for a discussion of three Port au Choix landscapes from the physical perspective of the changing coastline and the cultural perspective of who occupied these landscapes, how they lived on them, how they may have perceived them, and how they may have ascribed them cultural meaning. Layers of enculturation at sites and among connected sites collectively created the life history of these landscapes. I argue that people acknowledged earlier activities and occupations thereby linking the layers of life history through time.
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Notes
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All dates are expressed as calendar years before present (cal BP) at the one sigma probability range, calibrated by Calib 6.0html (Stuiver and Reimer 1993). See Appendix for details of radiocarbon dates mentioned in this chapter.
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These ranges exclude dates of uncertain context or with a standard deviation >110 radiocarbon years.
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A second Bass Pond core showed the same disruption across taxa but dated 200 years earlier (Bambrick 2009). This illustrates the difficulties in establishing chronological correspondence between the same disturbance events in two sediment cores and between sediment cores and archaeological sites.
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I would like to thank Parks Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Memorial University, for their sustained funding without which the past 25 years of research at Port au Choix would not have been possible. The Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Research Council of Newfoundland and Labrador have greatly enhanced the last 10 years of research. Thanks to Charles Conway, Memorial University Geography Department, for drafting the figures and Chris Hammond, Memorial University Photographic Services, for taking the artefact photographs. Thanks also to the Provincial Archaeology Office for their generous sharing of information and expertise.
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