^Weber, Bob (22 July 2018). “Ancient Arctic people may have known how to spin yarn long before Vikings arrived”. Old theories being questioned in light of carbon-dated yarn samples. CBC. 2 January 2019閲覧。 “… Michele Hayeur Smith of Brown University in Rhode Island, lead author of a recent paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Hayeur Smith and her colleagues were looking at scraps of yarn, perhaps used to hang amulets or decorate clothing, from ancient sites on Baffin Island and the Ungava Peninsula. The idea that you would have to learn to spin something from another culture was a bit ludicrous," she said. "It's a pretty intuitive thing to do.”
^Smith, Michèle Hayeur; Smith, Kevin P.; Nilsen, Gørill (August 2018). “Journal of Archaeological Science”. Dorset, Norse, or Thule? Technological Transfers, Marine Mammal Contamination, and AMS Dating of Spun Yarn and Textiles from the Eastern Canadian Arctic (Elsevier). doi:10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.005. "However, the date received on Sample 4440b from Nanook clearly indicates that sinew was being spun and plied at least as early, if not earlier, than yarn at this site. We feel that the most parsimonious explanation of this data is that the practice of spinning hair and wool into plied yarn most likely developed naturally within this context of complex, indigenous, Arctic fiber technologies, and not through contact with European textile producers. [. . .] Our investigations indicate that Paleoeskimo (Dorset) communities on Baffin Island spun threads from the hair and also from the sinews of native terrestrial grazing animals, most likely musk ox and arctic hare, throughout the Middle Dorset period and for at least a millennium before there is any reasonable evidence of European activity in the islands of the North Atlantic or in the North American Arctic"
^Armstrong, Jane (20 November 2012). “Vikings in Canada?”. A researcher says she’s found evidence that Norse sailors may have settled in Canada’s Arctic. Others aren’t so sure.. Maclean's. 15 January 2019閲覧。 “In fact, Fitzhugh thinks the cord at the centre of Sutherland’s “eureka” moment is a Dorset artifact. “We have very good evidence that this kind of spun cordage was being used hundreds of years before the Norse arrived in the New World, in other words 500 to 600 CE, at the least,” he says.”
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