Newfoundland Dorset Endblades: Measuring Regional Variation (2006)

Eileen Colligan (2006) Newfoundland Dorset Endblades: Measuring Regional Variation. Hunter College, City University of New York, Unpublished Masters thesis. 206 pp.

Abstract

My conclusions are: (1) there are some distinct regional variations within the Newfoundland variant but there are strong unifying characteristics that are shared by all regional assemblages; within the regional assemblages there is also a range of variation so endblade styles overlap from one region to another; (2) color of the tool stone used is quite distinct in some regions; (3) use of Ramah chert and grinding are common in some regions and completely absent, or nearly so, from others; (4) endblades are not sufficiently stylistically elaborated to use alone as markers for regional differentiation; (5) an unanticipated finding is that the proximal right and proximal left angles are not equal; the proximal right angle is greater than the proximal left angle to a statistically significant degree.

Archaeology Dorset culture endblades Newfoundland

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