@article {9730,
	title = {Chert Sourcing and Palaeo-Eskimo Raw Material Use in the Interior of Southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {35},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {117-142},
	abstract = {<p>In the eastern Canadian Arctic, a shift in toolstone selection strategies from Pre-Dorset (4500\&ndash;2800 B.P.) to Dorset (2500\&ndash; 1000 B.P.) has been interpreted as one line of evidence indicating culture change within the Palaeo-Eskimo continuum. Pre-Dorset toolmakers appear to have relied on readily available local cherts while Dorset toolmakers were more discriminating, frequently using scarce or non-local toolstones such as chalcedony from northern Labrador, crystal quartz, and nephrite, among others. Our recent analysis of a debitage assemblage from LeDx-42, a multi-component Palaeo-Eskimo site located in the interior of southern Baffin Island, aimed to see if similar raw material signatures could be isolated using a newly developed methodological approach for sourcing chert toolstone. One of our objectives in this preliminary study was to evaluate if diversity in chert selection strategies could be used as a proxy to assess possible links between cultural affiliation and activity areas within the site. This paper describes the sourcing protocol and discusses our results as they relate to the Palaeo-Eskimo exploitation of chert toolstone at LeDx-42.</p>},
	author = {S. Brooke Milne and Robert W. Park and Anne C. Hamilton and Mostafa J. Fayek}
}
