Abstract

The Maritime Archaic culture left a permanent and record of their 4000 year history in Labrador in the form of large stone caches, burial mounds, houses, and caribou drives. In addition to leaving a tangible and highly visible mark on the land, they also incorporated landscapes into their worldview, belief systems, and artifacts through the positioning of sites and monuments with respect to dramatic geographic features from which they drew inspiration and spiritual power. This paper reviews the geotactic inclinations of an ancient seafaring people as it could be interpreted by a landscape archaeologist from outer space.