ABSTRACT Across the North American Arctic, Inuit societies constructed a broad array of sophisticated dwellings. One particularly large and complex type known from the Mackenzie Delta region is the cruciform house, a form of semi-subterranean sod house (igluryuaq in the Sallirmiutun Inuvialuktun dialect) with three alcoves extending from its main floor area. Due to a variety of factors, including the scale of excavation required, one has not been fully excavated with modern methods until now. Here, we present a description of a completely excavated cruciform house from Kuukpak on the East Channel of the Mackenzie River. Not only does this allow the definition of many aspects of the house’s form, dimensions, and construction techniques, it also indicates several episodes of alteration and rebuilding over the course of the house’s occupation.

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出土的Igluryuaq：加拿大北极地区的接触前十字形十字形房屋

摘要在整个北美北极地区，因纽特人社团建造了各种各样的精致民居。从Mackenzie三角洲地区已知的一种特别大而复杂的类型是十字形房屋，一种半地下草皮房屋（Sallirmiutun Inuvialuktun方言中的igluryuaq），从其主楼延伸出三个凹室。由于各种因素，包括所需的开挖规模，到目前为止，还没有用现代方法完全开挖一个。在这里，我们对Mackenzie河东河道上Kuukpak一座完整挖掘的十字形房屋进行了描述。这不仅可以定义房屋的形式，尺寸和建造技术的许多方面，还可以指示房屋在使用过程中发生的几处改动和重建。