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Multi-periodSite Name: Resolute Thule Houses
Country: Canada
NOTE: This site is 1034.238 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Resolute
Latitude: 74.697500N  Longitude: 94.8322W
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Nunavut, Canada.
Several Thule house site lie just west of Resolute [Qausuittuq], Nunavut. These are unexcavated, but excavation and reconstruction are planned for the 2007 season. The location given is for the village of Resolute.

Thule homes were permanent seasonal dwellings, dug into the earth and lined with flat sided stones to make a floor. The homes would be roofed over, generally by large bones and layers of plants and earth for insulation. One entered the home by going down and then rising into the living area, situated above the entrance. This kept warm air from an oil lamp / hearth and the people themselves trapped inside the house.

The people of the Thule culture (1000 AD - 1200 AD) were direct predecessors to the modern arctic North Americans.

Note: See the article on the planned excavation of these two winter homes.
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House Excavation Planned this Season by bat400 on Monday, 30 April 2007
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A Canadian curator hopes to further uncover the history of Canadian Inuit ancestors this summer by excavating Thule houses near Resolute, Nunavut.
With the help of International Polar Year funding, Robert McGhee, an curator of Arctic archeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and McGill University archeology doctoral student Sarah Hazell plan to excavate two Thule-era houses about four kilometres west of the community, starting in late June.

(Courtesy Robert McGhee) McGhee, whose books include The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic, has been excavating and restoring three of the area's 800- to 1,000-year-old winter houses that belonged to the Thule Inuit, the ancestors of present-day Canadian Inuit.

To help in their latest effort, McGhee said he is looking to hire four local high school students this summer. "I hope that they will develop a greater interest in the Inuit past," he said. "It will give them a better sense of where their people came from, what kind of people they are and how they fit into the larger world."

One of the reconstructed houses, which have become tourist attractions, has a roof made of large whale bones. While McGhee cautioned that there won't be a similar reconstruction this summer, due to a lack of whale bones, he hopes the new work will continue to educate and entertain Resolute residents and visitors.

For more, see this article on the CBC website.
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