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Contact between the Norse Vikings and the Dorset culture in Arctic Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert W. Park
Robert W. Park*
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*Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada (Email: rwpark@uwaterloo.ca)
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Instances of cultural interaction between Norse and native American have long been accepted. But current archaeological research recognises that the indigenous peoples of the north were themselves diverse and had diverse histories. Here the author shows that the culture of one of them, the Dorset people, owed nothing to the Norse and probably had no contact with them.

Keywords

VikingNorseDorset cultureThuleInuittextilesfigurative artacculturation
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Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 315 , March 2008 , pp. 189 - 198
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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