The Arctic Frontier of Norse Greenland

McGovern, Thomas H.

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“…Walrus: While walrus occasionally appear all around the coast of Greenland, the greatest concentrations historically have been far from the Eastern Settlement area around modern Disko Bay (Arneborg 2000, Vibe 1967). This was the area known to the Norse as the Norðursetur and multiple lines of evidence suggest a large scale summer hunt drew participants from both Eastern and Western Settlements hundreds of kilometers north from their farms in the inner fjords (McGovern 1985a, Dugmore et al 2007. The deeply rooted tusk was not usually extracted at the kill site, but instead the front of the maxilla was cut away and brought back to the home farms for final finishing for export (Roesdahl 2005).…”

Section: Sea Mammalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland

Ogilvie

Woollett

Śmiarowski

et al. 2009

Journal of the North Atlantic

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Section: Sea Mammalsmentioning

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Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland

Ogilvie

Woollett

Śmiarowski

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Journal of the North Atlantic

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“…17. See also McGovern (1985) and Stalsberg (1987) (as cited in Sorenson 2000:175) and Sorenson (2000:175-176) for similar discussions on the significance of colonizers that include women and those that do not. 18.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

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Engendering New Netherland: Implications for Interpreting Early Colonial Societies

Cantwell

Wall

2011

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________________________________________________________________Here, we study the Algonquian and Iroquoian women who lived in settlements surrounding the Dutch colony of New Netherland, in today's northeastern United States. We begin by examining their roles in the colony and find that their lives did not fall into the pattern of servitude, concubinage, culture-brokering, and intermarriage that many have seen as the fate of Native or African women in other colonial societies. Instead, these women were, by and large, independent agents and followed their own indigenous customs as they interacted with Europeans. We then go on to explore how this new revisionist view of their actions affects archaeological interpretations of their households and the households of the Europeans as well. We further point out how the role of Native women in New Netherland was influenced in part by the presence and absence of other groups of women-both European and African-there. ________________________________________________________________Résumé: Nous étudions dans le présent document les femmes algonquines et iroquoises qui vécurent dans les établissements de population autour de la colonie néerlandaise de la Nouvelle-Hollande, dans les États-Unis du nord-est d'aujourd'hui. Nous commençons par l'étude de leurs rô les dans la colonie et découvrons que leurs vies ne se conformaient pas aux modèles de servitude, de concubinage, de courtage culturel et de mariage mixte que beaucoup ont vu comme ce qui advenait des femmes aborigènes ou africaines dans les autres sociétés coloniales. Au contraire, ces femmes ont été dans l'ensemble des représentantes indépendantes et suivaient leurs propres traditions locales lors de leur entrée en contact avec les Européens. Nous poursuivons en examinant comment cette nouvelle vision révisionniste de leurs actions a influencé les interprétations archéologiques de leurs ménages, ainsi que des ménages des Européens. Nous soulignons de quelle manière le rô le des femmes autochtones en Nouvelle-Hollande a été influencé par la présence et l'absence d'autres groupes de femmes, à la fois européennes et africaines dans cette région. ________________________________________________________________Resumen: En el presente trabajo estudiamos a las mujeres algonquinas e iroquesas que vivían en los asentamientos que rodeaban la colonia holandesa de Nuevos Países Bajos, en lo que hoy es la zona noreste de los Estados Unidos. Comenzamos analizando su papel en la colonia y descubrimos que sus vidas no se corresponden con los patrones de servidumbre, concubinato, intermediació n cultural y matrimonios mixtos que muchos consideran como inevitable destino de las mujeres nativas o africanas en otras sociedades coloniales. Más bien al contrario: estas mujeres son, en su inmensa mayoría, personas independientes y siguen sus propias costumbres indígenas en su interacció n con los europeos. Posteriormente procedemos a analizar có mo esta nueva visió n revisionista de sus acciones afecta a las interpretaciones arqueoló gicas de...

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“…The role of the LIA in modifying patterns of cultural interaction within the landscape is similarly speculative. Norse-Inuit competition for marine resources may have escalated as climate deteriorated, particularly in outer fjord areas adjacent to the Norse seasonal sealing stations (McGovern, 2000). Alternatively, linkages between Norse and Inuit groups may have strengthened, driven by the need of Norse farmers to acquire supplementary foodstuffs.…”

Section: Norse-inuit Interaction and Landscape Change In Southern Grementioning

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Norse–Inuit interaction and landscape change in southern Greenland? A geochronological, Pedological, and Palynological investigation

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Ruins representing both medieval Norse and Inuit (Thule culture) settlements can be found together on the coast at Sandhavn (59°59' N, 44°46' W), Greenland. The site presents a rare opportunity to investigate the character of past contact and interaction between these two peoples. Soils-based, radiocarbon, and palynological analyses demonstrate the creation of hortic anthrosols within Norse home-fields used between the mid-11th and late 14th centuries A.D. Irrigation channels have been identified within the home-fields, while rising grass pollen influx reveals intensification in hay production over the period ca. A.D. 1260-1350 despite climatic deterioration setting in around this time. Floor deposits and wall packing from an Inuit winter house returned dates of cal. A.D. 1220-1290 (2 s), yet no direct landscape-based evidence for Inuit activity could be determined. Although the exact nature of the relationship between Norse and Thule at Sandhavn remains unclear, the role of this site as a harbor and possible trading area may have attracted Inuit settlers keen to participate in European trade networks.

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The Arctic Frontier of Norse Greenland

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland

Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland

Engendering New Netherland: Implications for Interpreting Early Colonial Societies

Norse–Inuit interaction and landscape change in southern Greenland? A geochronological, Pedological, and Palynological investigation

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