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Comer's Midden was a 1916 archaeological excavation site near Thule (modern Qaanaaq), north of Mt. Dundas in North Star Bay in northern Greenland.〔Thalbitzer, 1934〕〔Dick, 2001〕〔Thule Forum, 2006〕 It is the find after which the Thule culture was named.〔Birket-Smith, p. 548.〕 The site was first excavated in 1916 by whaling Captain George Comer, ice master of the Crocker Land Expedition's relief team, and members of Knud Rasmussen's Second Danish Thule Expedition who were in the area charting the North Greenland coast.〔Wissler, p. 111.〕〔Rasmussen, p. 117.〕 == Excavation phases == ;1916 With his ship ice-bound, Comer made use of his time through an archaeological excavation just south of Arctic Station of Thule unearthing, amongst other things, a kitchen-midden made by paleo-Eskimos.〔 The site is named in honor of Comer and the midden that he found.〔Ross, 1984〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=With the aid of Captain Comer, of the Crocker Land Expedition, a large kitchen-midden was dug out in Umanaq )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In the Cape York district the find from Comer's Midden is the datum. )〕 ;1920s Anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen accompanied Rasmussen's 5th Thule Expedition (1921–1924) that included a return to the Thule site. In Mathiasen's monumental〔Meldgaard, p. 9.〕 works of the 1920s and 1930s, he described Comer's Midden as "the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland".〔Mathiassen, p. 409.〕 ;1930s and 1940s The site was excavated by Erik Holtved in 1935 to 1937, and again in 1946 to 1947.〔Holtved (1944), vol. I, p. 8.〕〔Holtved (1954), p. 5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comer's Midden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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