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Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages

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The three expeditions (1576-1578) of English explorer Martin Frobisher were some of the most ambitious and best documented of the early period of British colonial expansion. Sailing into the Canadian Arctic looking for the Northwest Passage to the Orient, Frobisher established the first, albeit transient, English settlement within the New World, bringing back to Europe not the route to Cathay but news of his encounters with Inuit peoples and tons of what he vainly was hoping used to be gold ore.
Archeology of the Frobisher Voyages draws from the material remains of the Frobisher web page (houses, mines, workshops, and ship ways) and of local latest Inuit sites and Inuit oral history the fullest account yet to be had of this earliest New World settlement. The contributors are archeologists, historians, and ethnographers who discuss the background and history of the Frobisher voyages and previous investigations of the web page, particularly that of Charles Francis Hall, an American explorer who in 1861 used to be led by Inuit legend to camp on Kodlunarn or “white man’s” island, off the southern coast of Baffin Island.
Examining artifacts collected by Hall in addition to new evidence gathered in three Smithsonian Institution research trips, the contributors reassess the structures and activities of Frobisher’s men and the Inuit with whom they traded and fought. One artifact – a lump of iron yielding a problematic carbon-14 date two centuries before Frobisher landed – used to be collected by Charles Francis Hall and given to the Smithsonian within the nineteenth century. Three more of these artifacts were collected at Kodlunarn within the 1981 research travel, and their origins remain a mystery.

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