The Intra and Inter-Household Organization of Dorset Period Butchery and Disposal of Harp Seal at Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1): An examination of two midden assemblages from House 10.

Baxter, Kaylee

The Intra and Inter-Household Organization of Dorset Period Butchery and Disposal of Harp Seal at Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1): An examination of two midden assemblages from House 10.

dc.contributor.advisor	Dr. Patricia Wells
dc.contributor.advisor	Dr. Matthew Walls
dc.contributor.author	Baxter, Kaylee
dc.contributor.committeemember	Dr. Gerald Oetelaar
dc.contributor.committeemember	Dr. Naotaka Hayashi
dc.contributor.committeemember	Dr. Patricia Wells
dc.contributor.committeemember	Dr. Matthew Walls
dc.date	2023-11
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-16T16:33:34Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-16T16:33:34Z
dc.date.issued	2023-06-11
dc.description.abstract	Phillip’s Garden is a large Middle Dorset period seal hunting site in the Port au Choix area of northwestern Newfoundland, Canada. Harp seal dominates all Phillip’s Garden middens in quantities of up to 99% in faunal assemblages. This thesis investigates two midden assemblages from House 10, a large single house at this multi-household aggregation site, to determine the household organization of harp seal processing, consumption, and disposal activities during the height of site occupation. The contents of two middens located at the front and rear of House 10 are analyzed for seal body part representation, cutmarks, and associated tools and artifacts. Results of these analyses demonstrate that each midden has similar body part representation, though interesting contrasts are observed and investigated. Differences in the associated tool and artifact types and counts for each midden are also noted. Midden analysis results are used to isolate and interpret the types of activities that would have contributed to the differential distribution of seal body parts, tools, and artifacts between the front and rear middens of House 10. Evidence of an intra-household organization of harp seal processing and disposal activities has interesting implications in the interpretation of an inter-household communal organization of harp seal resource management at Phillip’s Garden. The results of these analyses suggest that a framework of social organization was involved in the process of butchering, processing, consuming, and disposing of harp seals within and between households at Phillip’s Garden.
dc.identifier.citation	Baxter, K. (2023). The intra and inter-household organization of Dorset period butchery and disposal of harp seal at Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1): an examination of two midden assemblages from House 10 (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116626
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41469
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject	Phillip's Garden
dc.subject	Harp seal
dc.subject	Middens
dc.subject	Newfoundland
dc.subject	Cutmarks
dc.subject	Middle Dorset
dc.subject	Paleo-Inuit
dc.subject	Butchery
dc.subject	Zooarchaeology
dc.subject	Disposal
dc.subject	houses
dc.subject	Social organization
dc.subject.classification	Archaeology
dc.title	The Intra and Inter-Household Organization of Dorset Period Butchery and Disposal of Harp Seal at Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1): An examination of two midden assemblages from House 10.
dc.type	master thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Archaeology
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (MA)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.