Building from the ground up: Reconstructing visions of community in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Griebel, Brendan

doi:10.7202/1025252ar

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“…It is known that driftwood is a widely used resource for building material and other wooden objects in regions were forests are scarce or even absent as for example in Scotland, Iceland, Greenland or northern North America, (e.g. Alix and Brewster, 2004;Dickson 1992;Griebel, 2013;Kristjansdóttir et al, 2001). For the NG settlement, the source region of the driftwood is likely to be upstream (i.e., further south) of up to 200-250 km distance along the Nadym River.…”

Section: Periods Of Construction Activity and Utilized Woodmentioning

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Construction history and timber use of the medieval settlement Nadymskiy Gorodok in the northwestern Siberian forest-tundra

Omurova

Seim

Баринов

et al. 2020

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Archaeological investigations in the forest-tundra zone of western Siberia are highly important for understanding the material culture, social structure and ethnic history of the indigenous population. Extraordinary preservation conditions for organic material in the frozen cultural layers favour the preservation of wooden material suitable for dendrochronological studies. During archaeological surveys in 2011 and 2012 in the Nadymskiy Gorodok settlement, located in the forest-tundra zone in Yamalia, northwestern Siberia, 347 samples of construction 2 timbers were taken and analyzed with dendroarchaeological methods. The main species are larch (Larix sibirica (Ledeb.)), spruce (Picea obovata (Ledeb.)) and pine (Pinus sibirica (Du Tour)).Methodical approaches that allow the determination of the source of the wood and correct dating of the time of the constructions are presented. The tree-ring dating of eleven buildings and parts of the palisade highlighting four periods of construction activity during the second half of the 15th century (i.e. at around 1466 AD and 1475 AD) and the first half of the 16th century (at the beginning of the 16th century and after 1530 AD). The results determine that only two wooden structures were built using wood from local forests. In all other cases, the distribution of the dendrochronological dates and timber provenance indicates the use of driftwood from forests further upstream of the Nadym River. Thus, for a precise determination of construction activity in the Nadymskiy Gorodok settlement, a long exposure time of the driftwood needs to be considered and previous presumptions about the settlement history revised.

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Section: Periods Of Construction Activity and Utilized Woodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction history and timber use of the medieval settlement Nadymskiy Gorodok in the northwestern Siberian forest-tundra

Omurova

Seim

Баринов

et al. 2020

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Digging into My Past: Archaeology and Humanism in the Canadian Arctic

Searles

2017

Anthropology and Humanism

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The legal battles ensuing from the discovery of the "Kennewick Man" brought mass media attention to a longstanding divide between the science of archaeology and contemporary indigenous peoples. In this essay, I reflect on this divide as experienced from the perspective of a student of archaeology who later became a cultural anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of Inuit/settler relations in Nunavut. Building on the concept of community-oriented approaches to archaeology, I examine how a humanistic approach to archaeological data can further unite indigenous peoples and professional archaeology. [Indigenous archaeology, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Nunavut]

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Archaeology Field Schools in Nunavut

Ulujuk Zawadski,

Chemko

2023

etudinuit

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Inuit have contributed to museum collections for centuries, first through ethnographic collecting for early explorers, and later for traders, whalers, and government officials. Inuit have also contributed to collections through archaeological work as field assistants, archaeologists and through field schools. Archaeological field schools in Nunavut have trained young Inuit in archaeological field methods and community collaboration since the 1990s and into the early 2000s. Building on the field schools in Iglulik in the 1990s, archaeological work with Inuit communities in Nunavut since 1999 fostered the concepts of Indigenous archaeology early in the history of field schools in Nunavut. In this paper, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski and Ericka Chemko share their experiences on field schools that took place in Nunavut as organized by the Inuit Heritage Trust Inc. (IHT) from 2002-2008 through discussions and personal reflections, offering insight into the field schools and Inuit contributions to contemporary Arctic archaeology and anthropology.

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Building from the ground up: Reconstructing visions of community in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Construction history and timber use of the medieval settlement Nadymskiy Gorodok in the northwestern Siberian forest-tundra

Construction history and timber use of the medieval settlement Nadymskiy Gorodok in the northwestern Siberian forest-tundra

Digging into My Past: Archaeology and Humanism in the Canadian Arctic

Archaeology Field Schools in Nunavut

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