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	Dorset culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dorset culture preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America.
		The Dorset did lack dogsleds, sophisticated boats and toggled harpoons and therefore may have adapted poorly to the newly harsh weather of the late first- and early second millennium.
		Another interesting note to the story of the Inuit, Dorset and Norse story is that the decline of the Dorset people coincides with the appearance of the Norse in Greenland in the early 11th century, and the expansion of the Inuit coincides with the decline of the Dorset.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorset_(culture) (765 words)

	Dorset (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dorset is a county in south west England.
		Dorset College is a college in Dublin, Ireland.
		Dorset is an extinct culture that preceded the Inuit in Arctic North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorset_(disambiguation) (163 words)

	Civilization.ca - Canada's Visual History - The Arctic - 1000 B.C. - A.D. 1400
		Dorset houses were larger than those of the preceding groups and were sometimes semisubterranean, excavated several centimetres into the ground (figure).
		The culmination of Dorset culture occurred in the period between A.D. 500 and 1000, when their area of occupation was most extensive and they produced a unique and rather astonishing art.
		In the later centuries of the Dorset culture, however, the number of carvings appears to have increased dramatically.
	www.civilization.ca /cmc/archeo/cvh/arctic/earc7.htm (1085 words)

	Nationalmuseet - Late Dorset
		Early Dorset culture ranges from Banks Island in the west to Ammassalik in the east and from Thule in the north, to Saint Pierre et Michelon in the south.
		In Late Dorset the extension of the culture is about the same as in Early Dorset, with the exception of Greenland, where it seems to be limited to the northwest coast, with a possible expansion into Northeast Greenland.
		While excavating a number of Thule culture house ruins in the Thule area, Holtved found that Late Dorset artifacts were both incorporated in the turf used for constructing the walls of the Thule houses and in the middens upon which the Thule houses were built (Holtved 1944; Gulløv 1996).
	www.natmus.dk /sw18643.asp (2124 words)

	Helluland/Markland Archeology
		Dorset are an old arctic culture that preceded that of Thule and modern Inuit (Eskimo) culture.
		Dorset people did not use dogs or dogsleds, or the bow and arrow, and for this reason they probably were not a major threat to Norse explorers.
		Dorset religion was shamanistic and is revealed in the elaborate carvings made of animals and animal spirits.
	www.mnh.si.edu /vikings/voyage/subset/markland/archeo.html (880 words)

	North: Landscape of the Imagination / Le Nord: paysage imaginaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dorset remains are found throughout this area, often well preserved in the permafrost of deep middens, but they are tantalizingly inadequate for reconstructing the way of life of the Dorset people.
		The appearance in early Dorset culture of equipment designed for living and hunting on sea ice may be related to the growing importance of sea-mammal hunting on winter ice, which was more extensive and lasted a greater part of the year.
		Dorset people may have spent spring and summer on the coast, hunting walrus as they hauled themselves out of the sea onto the beach, harpooning seals and walrus from the edge of the landfast ice, and perhaps hunting from kayaks in open water.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /north/h16-4109-e.html (7203 words)

	North American Prehistory
		The Dorset Indian culture was located in Melville Peninsula in present dayCanada.
		The Dorset culture relied on these bodies of water for their food and material supplies.
		The Dorset culture used the bones from these animal to produce their next year of tools.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/northamerica/culture/canadian/dorset.html (137 words)

	Dorset Culture
		Dorset culture, 500 BC-1500 AD, is known archaeologically from most coastal regions of arctic Canada.
		The Dorset people were descended from Paleoeskimos of the PRE-DORSET CULTURE.
		Compared to their ancestors, the Dorset people had a more successful economy and lived in more permanent houses built of snow and turf and heated with soapstone oil lamps.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002360 (179 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dorset
		Dorset County on the English Channel, sw England; the county town is Dorchester.
		Dorset's most famous prehistoric monument is the Iron Age hill fort, Maiden Castle.
		It is traversed w to e by the North Dorset and South...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dorset&StartAt=1 (706 words)

	Dorset (culture)
		The Dorset culture preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America.
		Researchers believe that Dorset culture lacked dogs, boats and other technologies and adapted poorly to the development of harsher weather in the Arctic.
		He also found evidence that the Sadlermiut were the last remnants of the Dorset culture.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/do/dorset__culture_.html (301 words)

	ZapMeta Web Site Results for: "dorset" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The county of Dorset is to be found on the Southern coast of England nestled...
		Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west,...
		Dorset is the setting of the novels of Thomas Hardy, who was born near the...
	www.zapmeta.com /search/meta/zapfor.pl?query=dorset&search=web&match=all&D1=title&C1=&txt= (271 words)

	DorsetPageAbout
		There is evidence to suggest that people from the Dorset culture carved amulets and objects for shamanic rituals as early as 800 BC.
		Cape Dorset carvings are recognized for their highly naturalistic forms and dramatic compositions carved from the famous ‘green stone’.
		Dorset Fine Arts remains committed to furthering this unique and remarkable art form by actively supporting and promoting the numerous mature and upcoming sculptors of Cape Dorset.
	www.dorsetfinearts.com /sculpture.html (445 words)

	The Rooms Provincial Museum
		Although Dorset groups utilized most of the resources available to them, they had a much greater focus on marine resources than the earlier palaeoeskimo groups, and would intensely hunt whatever marine species was most abundant in their particular area.
		Dorset stone technology is characterised by small triangular harpoon endblades which are sharpened at the tip by the precise removal of two thin flakes of stone (Fig.
		Interestingly, late Dorset is not represented on the Island of Newfoundland.
	www.therooms.ca /museum/mnotes5.asp (2816 words)

	Aboriginal Peoples: Palaeo-Eskimo Peoples: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		Despite the fact that the Early Palaeo-Eskimo culture phase extends into that of the Late Palaeo-Eskimo phase, archaeologists disagree as to whether the latter phase is derived from the earlier.
		Dorset culture disappeared from the island, however, by about 1200 years ago, and from northern Labrador sometime between 1000 and 500 years ago.
		One of the characteristics of late Dorset culture is an abundance of carved objects--many of them astounding in their realism and power.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /aboriginal/palaeo.html (1508 words)

	Dorset culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Dorset culture occupied the Canadian Arctic from 2500 BP until at least 1000 BP.
		Best known for exquisite miniature carvings, perhaps the paraphernalia of shamans, Dorset appears to have been a more successful adaptation to the conditions of this region than the preceding Arctic Small Tool tradition cultures from which it developed.
		However, when the people of the Thule culture arrived in the Canadian Arctic around 1000 years ago the Dorset had largely or entirely disappeared for reasons that are not well understood.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuff/Dorset.html (241 words)

	Eskimo Art Gallery: About us
		Among the descendants of Paleo-Eskimo people, a new culture started emerging around 800 B.C. The Dorset culture, as it is now called, produced a significant amount of figurative art between c.
		Around 1,000 A.D., the people of the Thule culture who were ancestors of today's Inuit, migrated from northern Alaska and either displaced or slaughtered the earlier Dorset inhabitants.
		Thule art differed from the Dorset culture art in that it had a definite Alaskan influence, and included utilitarian objects such as combs, buttons, needle cases, cooking pots, ornate spears and harpoons.
	www.eskimoart.com /history.html (768 words)

	Dorset culture
		The Dorset did lack dogsleds, sophisticated boats and toggled harpoons and therefore may have adapted poorly to the newly harsh weather of the late first- and early second millennium.
		The Dorset may have developed from the previous cultures of Pre-Dorset, Saqqaq or (less likely) Independence I. These earlier cultures had bow and arrow technology, but possibly due to a shift from terrestrial to aquatic hunting, the bow and arrow became lost to the Dorset.
		Nonetheless, it appears archaeologically that the Dorset were in a massive decline when the Thule arrived, and about to disappear from their frosted homes.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Dorset_culture.html (1042 words)

	Victoria Community Development Corporation
		Dorset Eskimo marine specialization is reflected in site locations on outermost islands, which permitted better access to the harp seal migrations.
		Dorset Eskimo artifacts were found on Dildo Island in recent years and are now on display at the Dildo Interpretation Centre.
		It is suggested that the Dorset culture should rather be envisioned as a mosaic of "regional expressions".
	www.baccalieu.com /vacationsthatmatter/VCDC/html/learning_resources/dildo0.htm (918 words)

	Arctic Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The culture of the first people to reach northeastern Greenland and the High Arctic is called "Independence I" by archaeologists, named after the fjord on which their remains were first found.
		The Dorset population multiplied until about A.D. 1000, during which time they occupied a huge geographic triangle bounded on the west by Victoria Island, on the north by Ellesmere Island and northern Greenland, and on the southeast by Newfoundland.
		As a consequence, the Dorsets disappeared in the core area of Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait.
	www.quarkexpeditions.com /arctic/culture.shtml (1819 words)

	Archaeology in the Arctic
		The Dorset culture occupied the Canadian Arctic and parts of Greenland from approximately 500 B.C. until around 1000 A.D. Dorset appears to have been a more successful adaptation to the conditions of this region than the preceding Arctic Small Tool tradition cultures from which it developed.
		This was important since the Dorset people appear to have adapted very successfully to a climate that had become colder than that of encountered by their ancestors of the Arctic Small Tool tradition cultures.
		For that reason and probably a range of other factors, Dorset populations appear to have undergone a dramatic decline and by A.D. 1000 they had virtually disappeared from most parts of their Arctic homeland when the people of the Thule culture arrived.
	www.anthropology.uwaterloo.ca /ArcticArchStuff/dorset.html (360 words)

	History of Inuit Art
		People within Dorset culture were the first to produce significant number of figurative art objects; they used bone, ivory, and wood and created small objects such as birds, bears and other animals, human figures, face clusters, masks and maskettes.
		Most of the objects from the Dorset culture are small enough to fit in the palm of the hand; these small objects could easily be carried by the nomadic culture.
		This period is marked by several occurences: the demise of Thule culture, a climatic change wherein weather was increasingly cold, the disappearance of the whales and the arrival of the white man in the 16th century.
	www.canadianstudies.ca /NewJapan/inuitarthistory.html (707 words)

	Civilization.ca - Life and Art of an Ancient Arctic People - Disappearance of Dorset Culture
		Over the generations that the two groups were in contact, there must have been many occasions when a Tunit woman was persuaded, or stolen from her family, to become the wife of an Inuk, and when children were given or taken in adoption.
		In fact, it seems quite possible that the two most distinctive icons of Inuit culture, the inukshuk (boulder cairn) and the domed snowhouse, may have been developed by the Dorset people and passed on to the new inheritors of the Arctic world.
		One form of harpoon head, an ivory carving of a falcon, and a small ivory disk suggest the continuity of Dorset elements in the culture of the early Inuit.
	www.civilization.ca /archeo/paleoesq/pec01eng.html (907 words)

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		For whatever reason, the Pre-Dorset culture evolved into the Dorset culture during a period of heightened culture change in a cooler period.
		Dorset was a remarkably homogeneous culture throughout its range.
		Dorset is famous for its elaborate and highly evolved artistic tradition that includes carved wood, bone, and ivory depictions of humans, spirit monsters, and animals; objects are of a magico-religious nature; supernatural universe.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/2596/dorset.html (797 words)

	Dorset (culture) - Definition, explanation
		Anthropologist Diamond Jenness in 1925 received some odd artifacts from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, which seemed to derive from an ancient lifestyle unlike that of the Inuit.
		In 1954 and 1955, Henry B. Collins of the Smithsonian Institution studied Eskimo house ruins in the Canadian Arctic.
		Surprisingly, there was no genetic connection between the Dorset culture and the Inuit culture, which indicates the complete replacement and extinction of the Dorsets.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/do/dorset__culture_.php (394 words)

	History Of Inuit Art
		The Dorset people were nomadic hunters moving over the land from coast to interior in search of their daily food.
		The Thule people camped in skin tents during the summer, like their Dorset ancestors, and almost certainly adapted from the Dorset people the practice of building snowhouses for temporary winter quarters, as snowhouses were not part of the Alaskan way of life.
		No specific cultural label has been given to the span of years from 1700 A.D. to the present time, and it could be given any convenient name such as the Historic Period, the Present Contemporary Period or simply the New Period.
	www.inuitgallery.com /history.shtml (3635 words)

	Current Awards - Sylvie LeBlanc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A long-held view in Arctic archaeology, is that the Dorset culture maintained a pattern of cultural homogeneity throughout the entire Dorset sphere (Canadian Arctic, Newfoundland/Labrador, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Greenland), with very little change occurring through time.
		The concept of a homogeneous "Newfoundland Dorset" culture is a reflection of this general perspective: "the remarkable six century changelessness of style and technology on the island of Newfoundland" (Maxwell 1976:5) epitomizes this view of the Newfoundland Dorset culture.
		This is indicated by the uniqueness of the different regional expressions of Dorset culture throughout the island of Newfoundland and in Saint-Pierre.
	www.mun.ca /iser/ca_leblanc.html (617 words)

	Dorset Culture
		The Dorset culture developed in a core area along the shores of Northern Foxe Basin, Hudson Strait and the northern tip of Baffin Island.
		The Dorset culture was a more successful adaption to the climatic conditions of the period than the earlier pre Dorset culture.
		The remains of snow knives and sled shoes indicates that the Dorset developed the use of sleds although these were small and probably pulled by hand, as no dog sledding equipment has been found.
	www.nunanet.com /~jtagak/history/dorset.htm (375 words)

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