Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers at L'Anse aux Meadows and the Dynamics of Bird and Mammal Hunting in Newfoundland

摘要: This paper explores pre-contact hunting at L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Newfoundland, Canada during the Late Holocene. Data from over 40 years of excavations are interpreted light recent insights into subsistence activities Recent Indian people (2000–500 B.P.) and their historic Beothuk descendants. The site’s lithic assemblage is dominated by large bifaces, scrapers, late-stage reduction debris that appear related to caribou and/or seal exploitation. However, majority small sample faunal remains consists bird bone. We utilize historical records argue birds were harvested while mammal tools prepared for use other locales. Ethnographic archaeological examples northern regions portray similar seasonal relationships between warm weather harvesting cold exploitation with resultant implications interpretation assemblages.