Towards an Archaeology of the Nain Region, Labrador: Neqamikegkaput (Arctic Studies Center Contibutions to Circumpolar Anthropolgy) (Volume 7)

Towards an Archaeology of the Nain Region, Labrador: Neqamikegkaput (Arctic Studies Center Contibutions to Circumpolar Anthropolgy) (Volume 7)

Indian and Eskimo peoples approaching Labrador from different directions and met for the first time 4200 years ago at the forest-tundra boundary north around Nain. Building on archaeological evidence from a decade of previous Smithsonian research, Hood provides the first test of the Maritime Archaic Indian ‘long-house’ theory and investigates whether early Labrador Indians met the first Eskimo people who migrated into Labrador from the Arctic. His excavations and detailed analysis confirm the long-house theory and propose how the first Eskimo-Indian contact may have occurred. Bryan Hood is a professor at the Institute for Archaeology, University of Tromsø, Norway.