Abstract

A collaborative salvage project was undertaken in 1990 by the Avataq Cultural Institute and the Cree Regional Authority at the GhGk-4 site, a Pre-Dorset boulder field site near Kuujjuarapik/Whapmagoostui, southeastern Hudson Bay. Project activities were centred on the excavation of four semi-subterranean dwellings of varying form and two tent rings. The excavations yielded a total of 4,650 lithic specimens. The tool assemblage, comprising 232 artifacts, is dominated by burins, burin spalls, microblades and projectile points of several varieties. The excavation results and the implications of the project regarding boulder field archaeology in Nunavik are described and discussed.