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By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives on Port au Choix Archaeology

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The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix

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This chapter provides a palaeoenvironmental context for prehistoric human settlement at Port au Choix. It describes the physical setting of the Port au Choix region and documents the changes in landscape, climate and vegetation that have occurred over the period of human occupation, that is, over the last 6,000 years. Using terrestrial and marine proxy climate records, chronologies of climate change are compared with the settlement history of six different cultural groups.

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     Except where indicated, all calendar dates in this chapter were calibrated using Calib 6.0html (Stuiver and Reimer 1993) and are represented by the one sigma probability range.

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Acknowledgements

Multi-year funding has been provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Parks Canada, and Memorial University. Of particular note was funding by the New Initiatives Research program of the Office of the Vice-President (Research), Memorial University that initially supported our ongoing interdisciplinary research on the prehistoric landscape and archaeology of the Northern Peninsula. Diagrams were drafted by Charles Conway, Memorial University Geography Department. We thank Alice Kelley and Peta Mudie for their comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.

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Bell, T., Renouf, M.A.P. (2011). By Land and Sea: Landscape and Marine Environmental Perspectives on Port au Choix Archaeology. In: Renouf, M. (eds) The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8324-4_2

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