Connecting the present with the past: Traditional hunting methods and archaeozoological investigations in central west Greenland

对格陵兰猎人(26至86岁)进行了一系列访谈，内容涉及在西格陵兰岛中部Angujártorfiup Nuná地区狩猎驯鹿和利用驯鹿，提供了大量预期和意外的信息。对传统形式的聚落模式、狩猎技术和驯鹿开发、骨头处理和肉类藏匿的作用的了解，对动物考古调查特别感兴趣，可能会随着直到20世纪中叶访问内陆狩猎的那一代格陵兰人的死亡而消失。就在最近的1950年，驯鹿的几乎所有部分都被密集开发。在接下来的几十年里，许多用途消失了；增加了一些新的用途。一些格陵兰人报告说，他们在童年时期经历了过去几十年没有使用过的驯鹿部分的利用。一些年长的猎人只从他们的父辈那里获得了关于各种任务和用途的二手知识。准确的日期很少给出，因此只能给出公元1950年后40到60年的大致时间范围。脂肪和驯鹿皮的密集使用消失了，而将驯鹿作为旅游景点的开发是新的。在采访期间，我们获得了对20世纪40年代在调查地区狩猎的猎人的其他采访。此外，我们还被允许使用上个世纪初格陵兰猎人的日记和笔记本。Angujaartorfik古爱斯基摩遗址的记录工作已于2012年夏天完成。放射性碳和动物考古分析将使人们对扩展的Saqqaq遗址的时间发展和季节性使用情况有深入的了解。2012年夏天，我们记录了一个图勒狩猎地点(没有。L42)在Angujártorfiup Nun？的内部。骨骼的分布将提供这个广泛使用的狩猎营地活动区域的信息。访谈和书面记录的结果将应用于不同时间地点的空间和骨学遗迹。

A series of interviews with Greenlandic hunters (26 to 86 years old) on caribou hunting and caribou utilization in central West Greenland in the area of Angujârtorfiup Nunâ provided a wealth of anticipated and unexpected information. The knowledge of the traditional forms of settlement patterns, hunting techniques and caribou exploitation, bone waste treatment, and role of meat caches, which is of special interest for zooarchaeological investigation, may be lost with the death of the generation of Greenlanders who visited the interior to hunt up to the middle of the 20th century.As recently as 1950 AD, almost all parts of the caribou were exploited intensively. In the following decades, numerous utilizations disappeared; a few new ones were added. A few Greenlanders reported that they had experienced the utilization of parts of caribou during their childhood that they had not used in the last decades. Some of the older hunters only had second-hand knowledge of various tasks and uses from members of their parents generation. Exact dates were seldom given so that only a rough time range of 40 to 60 years after 1950 AD can be given for the observed changes. The intensive use of fat and caribou skins disappeared, whereas the exploitation of caribou as a tourist attraction was new.During the interviews we got access to other interviews with hunters from the 1940s that hunted in the investigation area. In addition we were allowed to use diaries and notebooks of Greenlandic hunters from the beginning of the last century. The documentation of the Palaeo-Eskimo site of Angujaartorfik was completed in the summer of 2012. Radiocarbon and zooarchaeological analyses shall provide insight to the chronological development and the seasonal use of the extended Saqqaq site. In the summer of 2012 we documented a Thule hunting site (no. L42) in the interior of Angujârtorfiup Nunâ. The distribution of bones shall give information on activity areas in this widely used hunting camp.The results of the interviews and the written records will be applied to the spatial and osteological remains of sites of different time.