STONE WALLS--LONGHOUSES "Five of the twelve Longhouses on Ungava Bay can be 'matched in ... the old Norse settlements--in size, construction, shape, partitions, vestibules, ember pits, and in the trash heaps'" (Lee 1970)
Comments: Thomas Lee determined that there were three phases of occupation of the longhouses. A very brief Norse phase, followed by a Dorset phase. Then later, the Thule Eskimos occupied the site.
Lee presented his stone artifacts as Norse, Dorset and Thule sets. Lee had not expected to find any metal objects. Neverthe less, an ancient ax was found -- out of context.
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