Foraging efficiency and small game: The importance of dovekie (Alle alle) in Inughuit subsistence Author Johansen, Trine Bjørneboe text Anthropozoologica 2013 2013-06-30 48 1 75 88 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n1a4 journal article 10.5252/az2013n1a4 2107-08817 4610205

TABLE 1. — Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) across the five temporal components identified at Iita, Northwest Greenland.

	Period A Early Thule (ca. AD 1400 - 1500)		Period B Middle Thule (ca. mid- 17 th cen.)		Period C Early Historic Inughuit (mid-late 19 th cen.) Period D Late Historic Inughuit (early 20th cen.) Crocker Land Expedition (1913 -17)						Total Iita Assemblage (ca. AD 1400 - 1917)
	NISP %		NISP % NISP % NISP % NISP %								NISP	%
FISH
Fish indet.	1	0.05	—	—	4	0.04	1	0.01	1	0.06	7	0.03
Total fish	1	0.05	—	—	4	0.04	1	0.01	1	0.06	7	0.03
BIRDS
Fulmar	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	0.3	—	—	2	<0.1
Snow goose	4	0.21	9	0.52	55	0.51	31	0.39	15	0.87	114	0.47
Duck/goose	2	0.11	18	1.04	78	0.72	29	0.37	33	1.92	160	0.66
Gull	1	0.05	4	0.23	48	0.44	10	0.13	—	—	63	0.26
Brünnich's guillemot	4	0.21	—	—	3	0.03	1	0.01	—	—	8	0.03
Dovekie	563 29.80		1502 87.17		9218 0.85 4907 61.93				1097 63.97		17287 71.62
Bird indet.	3	0.16	13	0.75	136	1.3	35	0.44	30	1.75	217	0.9
Total bird	577 30.70		1546 89.73		9538 87.61		5015 63.29		1175 68.5		17,851 73.96
MAMMALS
Arctic hare	288 15.26		88	5.11	389	3.57	732 25.17		96	5.6	1593	6.6
Arctic fox	127	6.73	13	0.75	274	2.52	359	4.53	46	2.68	819	3.39
Dog	42	2.23	5	0.29	39	0.36	324	4.09	28	1.63	438	1.81
Polar bear	1	0.05	—	—	2	0.02	3	0.38	2	0.12	8	0.03
Ringed seal	629 33.50		26	1.51	300	2.76	758	9.57	142	8.28	1855	7.69
Bearded seal	63	3.34	11	0.64	22	0.2	90	1.14	32	1.87	218	0.9
Walrus	53	2.81	13	0.75	141	1.3	242	3.05	117	6.82	566	2.35
Pinnipedia	55	2.91	9	0.52	68	0.62	225	2.84	52	3.03	409	1.69
Caribou	31	1.64	12	0.70	89	0.82	140	1.77	15	0.87	287	1.19
Musk-ox	7	0.37	—	—	14	0.13	17	0.21	8	0.47	46	0.19
Artiodactyl	3	0.16	—	—	2	0.02	7	0.09	1	0.06	13	0.05
Narwhal	—	—	—	—	1 <0.01 1			0.01	—	—	2	<0.01
Bowhead whale	1	0.15	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	<0.01
Whale indet.	9	0.48	—	—	4	0.04	10	0.13	—	—	23	0.1
Total mammal	1309 69.74		177	10.27	1345 12.35		2908 36.7		539 31.42		6278	26.01
Number of identified
specimens	1887 90.55		1723 97.84 10,887 97.61 7924 93.32						1715 93.46		24,136 95.31
Richness (Ntaxa)	16		10		16		17		13		18
UNIDENTIFIED SPECIMENS
Small terrestrial mammal
indet.	43		6		65		56		12		182
Large terrestrial mammal
indet.	13		2		34		86		8		143
Marine mammal indet.	29		5		30		61		16		141
Mammal indet.	112		25		138		364		84		723
Total unidentified	197	9.45	38	2.16	267	2.39	567	6.68	120	6.54	1189	4.69
TOTAL VERTEBRATES	2084		1761 11,154 8491						1835		25,325