Abstract and Acknowledgements

Chapter One:
Dorset Eskimo Archaeology and the Stock Cove Project

• A Review of Dorset Eskimo Archaeology
  
• Dorset Eskimo Research in Insular Newfoundland
  
• Orientation of the Present Research
  
• The Stock Cove Site
  
• Stratigraphy and Features
  
• Interpretations of the Dorset Eskimo Cultural Remains
  
• Summary of Prehistoric Occupations at Stock Cove
  

Chapter Two:
Artifacts from the Stock Cove Site

• Introduction
  
• Harpoon End Blades
  
• Knives/Bifaces
  
• Scrapers
  
• Blades/Blade-like Flakes
  
• Quartz Crystal Cores and Core Detritus
  
• Tip-flute Flakes
  
• Preforms
  
• Ground Slate Tools
  
• Burin-like-tools
  
• Hammerstones
  
• Abraders
  
• Soapstone Vessel Fragments
  
• Summary
  

Chapter Three:
Natural Environment and Culture History

• Introduction
  
• Geology and Palaeoenvironment
  
• Physiography
  
• Climate
  
• Food Resources
  
• Prehistoric Occupations of Insular Newfoundland
  

Chapter Four:
Patterns in Newfoundland Dorset Eskimo Settlement and Subsistence

• Settlement and Subsistence Hypotheses
  
• The West Coast: Cape Ray to Cape Riche
  
• The East Coast of the Great Northern Peninsula
  
• The Northeast Coast: Bonavista and Notre Dame Bays
  
• The Isthmus of Avalon
  
• The South Coast
  
• Newfoundland Dorset Eskimo: Homogeneity vs. Regionalism
  

Chapter Five:
Summary and Conclusions

• The Dorset Eskimo Occupation of Stock Cove
  
• "Regionalism" and the Dorset Eskimo Occupation of Newfoundland
  

References Cited

Tabularized Artifact Data

• Table 1: Dorset Eskimo Artifacts from Stock Cove
  
• Table 2: "Chipped" End Blades: Attributes of Manufacture and Form
  
• Table 3: "Chipped" End Blades: Metric Attributes
  
• Table 4: "Ground" End Blades: Attributes of Manufacture and Form
  
• Table 5: "Ground" End Blades: Metric Attributes
  
• Table 6: "Chipped and Ground" End Blades: Attributes of Manufacture and Form
  
• Table 7: "Chipped and Ground" End Blades: Metric Attributes
  
• Table 8: End Scrapers: Attributes of Manufacture and Form
  
• Table 9: End Scrapers: Metric Attributes
  
• Table 10: Chert Blades/Blade-like Flakes
  
• Table 11: Quartz Crystal Blades/Blade-like Flakes
  
• Table 12: Tip-flute Flakes: Inventory
  
• Table 13: Tip-flute Flakes: Metric Attributes
  
• Table 14: Preforms: Attributes of Manufacture and Form
  
• Table 15: Preforms: Metric Attributes
  
• Table 16: Hammerstones
  
• Table 17: Abraders
  

Artifact Illustrations

• Plate I: "Chipped" Harpoon End Blades
  
• Plate II: "Ground" and "Chipped and Ground" End Blades
  
• Plate III: Knives/Bifaces
  
• Plate IV: Quartz Crystal Scrapers
  
• Plate V: Chert Scrapers
  
• Plate VI: Blades/Blade-like Flakes
  
• Plate VII: Preforms
  
• Plate VIII: Ground Slate Tools
  
• Plate IX: Soapstone Vessel Fragments, Abraders
  

Stock Cove Excavation Plan