Archaeology and petrology of coal artifacts from a Thule settlement on Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada.

Arctic | December 1, 1998| | Copyright

WOLFGANG KALKREUTH (1) and PATRICIA D. SUTHERLAND (2) (Received 18 November 1997; accepted in revised form 6 April 1998) ABSTRACT. Coal artifacts are occasionally excavated by archaeologists from Thule culture settlements (c. A.D. 1100-1700) in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. This study examines two such artifacts from a Thule settlement located on the east coast of Axel Heiberg Island, Canada. One specimen has a petrographic composition typical of a cannel shale, in which sporinite is the most abundant organic constituent; the other is characterized by Botryococcus-alginite ...

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