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Counting Coup or Counting Calories - The Role of Whaling in Thule Origins and the Eastern Expansion

Conference Paper

Counting Coup or Counting Calories - The Role of Whaling in Thule Origins and the Eastern Expansion

Craig GERLACH; Maribeth S. Murray

Abstract

In this paper we re-evaluate the archaeological evidence for whaling in Western Thule culture. We consider the extent to which whaling shaped Thule culture and what role, if any, whaling played in the Thule expansion into Canada. Implications for the nature of Dorset/Thule contact are also drawn out.