The Backbone of the Saqqaq Culture: A Study of the Nonmaterial Dimensions of the Early Arctic Small Tool Tradition
The Backbone of the Saqqaq Culture: A Study of the Nonmaterial Dimensions of the Early Arctic Small Tool Tradition
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萨卡克文化的支柱：早期北极小工具传统的非物质维度研究
DOI：
10.1353/arc.2012.0024
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发表时间：
2013
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0.5
通讯作者：
B. Grønnow
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作者：
B. Grønnow
从人种学的类比和对晚期多塞特象征表征的解释的启发下，试图理解关于北极东部最早的人类社会的精神世界和宇宙学的物质证据，考古学家将其命名为“早期北极小工具传统”(早期ASTT)。保存完好的考古发现来自两个永久冻结的萨卡克遗址(约公元前2400-900年)在西格陵兰岛的迪斯科海湾，构成了分析的起点，并包括了来自加拿大多塞特和独立I之前遗址的比较材料。对技术和设计的分析表明，ASTT早期的物质文化不断提醒人们，这些地理上广泛分布的、流动的开拓者在严格的文化规范下活动。这种同质的物质性确保了一个开创性社会的文化和社会一致性，这个社会不断进入未知和不确定的领域。对装饰品、可能的护身符和鼓的碎片--北极最早的--的分析表明，早期的ASTT物质文化是万物有灵论宇宙论的组成部分。
Inspired by ethnographic analogies and interpretations of late Dorset symbolic representations an attempt is made to understand the material evidence concerning spiritual worlds and cosmology of the earliest human societies of the eastern Arctic, designated “early Arctic Small Tool tradition” (early ASTt) by archaeologists. Excellently preserved archaeological finds from two permanently frozen Saqqaq sites (ca. 2400–900 B.C.) in Disco Bay, West Greenland, form the starting point of the analyses, and comparative materials from Pre-Dorset and Independence I sites in Canada are included. Analyses of technology and design suggest that the material culture of the early ASTt acted as a constant reminder of strict cultural norms within which these geographically widespread and mobile pioneering people operated. This homogenous materiality ensured cultural and social coherence in a pioneering society, which constantly was on the move into unknown and uncertain landscapes. Analyses of decorated objects, possible amulets, and fragments of drums—the earliest in the Arctic—suggest that the early ASTt material culture was an integral part of an animistic cosmology.
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64.8
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