Talk:Dorset culture

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View comments (edit) Seems to be a inconsistency here - were the Dorset Skrællings? If they had now bow and arrows how could they kill Erik the Red's son with an arrow?

Dorset Technology:

The Civilization.ca page on Dorset culture indicates that they did use dogsleds, contradicting the author of this article. See Dorset Culture for details. However, the Cvilization.ca page on Thule culture says just the opposite. See Thule Culture. Without better evidence one way or the other, I edited out the mention of Dorset peoples not using dogsleds.

Jacengp (talk) 17:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)jacengp

Did they ALL die, or are there some descendants? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.144.72 (talk) 00:36, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

The information in this article is contradicted by the information in Thule people.

Here is the information from the Thule article, which I commented out:

• In the early twentieth century, one group of anthropologists erroneously believed that the Sadlermiut, a modern Inuit group on Southampton Island, were the last remaining Dorset. But this belief was fueled by nostalgia, as the Sadlermiut were all but extinct in 1902 because of diseases carried by the whalers.

Could someone please add the start and end dates of the Dorset Culture to the first paragraph of the article?

Martin Rundkvist 06:25, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

The dates vary, one suggestion would be 700/500 BP - 1000/1500 AD, since so-called "Groswater Dorset" began in Labrador earlier than Dorset proper elsewhere (and since Dorset developed out of Pre-Dorset, a sharp boundary is difficult to draw); also the end came earlier in the west (possibliy influenced by the spread of the Thule culture) and latest again in Quebec/Labrador, where there may be some biological continuity.

The idea of the Sadlirmiut being Dorset is based primarily on the Sadlermiut use of chipped stone, but otherwise their material culture was typically Late Thule; in fact, even the shape of their chipped stone implements (harpoon head blades etc.) was typically Thule rather than Dorset. It should be remembered that stone technology is not genetically inherited; for instance, the North Alaskan Birnirk Culture from which Thule developed used chipped stone.--Death Bredon 20:10, 1 December 2007 (UTC)