Plummet, 1982, gave a description of the longhouses known around Ungava Bay and sums up excavation data for five of them. In conclusion Plummet wrote: "The Dorset longhouse is a structure built with the same technical resources as other Dorset habitations. ... Analogies [to other longhouses] can be explained by a basic convergence in function and by similar technical constraints. (Plumet, 1982)