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Priscilla Renouf’s more than 30 years of research on the human history of the Port au Choix peninsula was longue durée in execution as well as in perspective and contribution, resulting in notable insights into adaptations at Port au Choix itself and on the island of Newfoundland. This paper finds inspiration in Renouf’s work at the site of Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1) on the Port au Choix peninsula. It proposes a model of integration and shared social context between Dorset in southern Labrador and Dorset in northwestern Newfoundland. Mobility and interconnection, key hallmarks of northern forager societies, are suggested through multiple lines of evidence that include the proximity and contemporaneity of sites in the two regions, the evidence of long-distance networks for exchange of Ramah chert, and the requirements of travel imposed by the twice yearly harp seal migration, which passed close to the Port au Choix peninsula in spring but followed the Labrador shore in late autumn. La recherche sur l’histoire humaine de la péninsule de Port au Choix effectuée par Priscilla Renouf a duré plus de 30 ans. Elle a été de longue durée dans son exécution, mais également dans sa perspective et sa contribution, renseignant de façon significative sur les adaptations de Port au Choix même et de l’île de Terre-Neuve. Cette étude est inspirée des travaux de Priscilla Renouf réalisés au site de Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1) dans la péninsule de Port au Choix. Il propose un modèle d’intégration et un contexte social partagé entre le Dorset du sud du Labrador et le Dorset du nord de Terre-Neuve. La mobilité et l’interconnexion, caractéristiques essentielles des sociétés fourragères du Nord, sont suggérées sous forme de sources de données multiples, dont la proximité et la contemporanéité des sites des deux régions, la preuve de l’existence de réseaux pour l’échange de chert de Ramah sur de longues distances et les exigences en matière de déplacement imposées par la migration semestrielle du phoque du Groenland, laquelle passait près de la péninsule de Port au Choix au printemps, et suivait la côte du Labrador vers la fin de l’automne.

Lower Cambrian buildups were constructed by a consortium of calcareous cyanobacteria(?) and archaeocyaths in varying proportions. The earliest are small Renalcis-cored bioherms in the Tommotian of the Siberian Platform. During the Atdabanian Stage archaeocyaths diversified and assumed a more active constructional role. A barrier complex of bioherms and associated facies developed in equatorial latitudes on the Siberian Plate. Here termed the \"Great Siberian Barrier Complex,\"this carbonate barrier was over 800 km long and up to 300 km wide. The first paleoecologic studies of Lower Cambrian buildups were carried out by Soviet workers in the rocks of the Great Siberian Barrier Complex: During the Botomian Stage archaeocyathan diversity increased dramatically and the distribution and variety of buildups also increased. Botomian buildups of western North America display a complex morphology and four-stage community replacement sequence previously documented in younger Phanerozoic framework reefs. Botomian reefs of Antarctica display an especially wide variety of textures and show that archaeocyaths were not an essential component of framework reefs in the Lower Cambrian. Following a more-or-less continuous marine transgression during the first three stages of the Early Cambrian, the end of the Early Cambrian was a time of worldwide regression, here termed the Toyonian Regression. During this regression archaeocyathan diversity plummeted, while the associated fauna experienced a dramatic increase in diversity. Lower Cambrian reefs display a complex trophic web in which archaeocyaths with algal symbionts probably played an important energetic role. We present evidence that Renalcis and Epiphyton were cyanobacteria that could live autotrophically in well-lit settings, photoheterotrophically in dim light, and perhaps chemoheterotrophically in complete darkness. The diversity of reef morphologies and boundstone fabrics in Lower Cambrian reefs has been underappreciated, as has the faunal diversity of the reef community. Lower Cambrian reefs have much to teach us about the reef ecosystem generally, and the Lower Cambrian reef-building fauna, including archaeocyaths, could be an important source of data on the evolutionary paleoecology of the Cambrian fauna.

In prehistoric times, a tough young mammoth hunter must journey across forbidden...

She grows up to be headstrong Evolet ([Steven Strait, Camilla Belle]), sweetheart of the warrior D'Leh (Strait), a fretful young man destined to become tribe leader if he can pierce the heart of a manuk (woolly mammoth). Sadly, D'Leh fails in his quest and he is forced to relinquish his claim on Evolet. Despair turns to rage when an evil warlord (Badra) storms the settlement, enslaving many of the Yagahl including Evolet. Determined to save his beloved, D'Leh joins his guardian Tic'Tic (Curtis), fellow warrior Ka'Ren (Zinal) and orphan boy Baku (Baring) on a perilous expedition into the great unknown.

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THE STORY: In prehistoric times hunky D'Leh ([Steven Strait]) is part of a tribe of mammoth hunters who wants to win the beautiful tribeswoman Evolet (Belle). Raiders attack their village and carry off Evolet, among others. D'Leh embarks on a dangerous quest to try to rescue her. His epic journey takes him into new and strange lands, sees him battle dangerous beasts and come into contact with a more advanced civilisation. On paper, the storyline sounds rather like Mel Gibson's equally epic Apocalypto, but there no real mammoth-stomping-on-badguy footage to speak of. The dreadlocked hunky hero is engagingly played by Steven Strait, while [Camilla Belle] is suitably entrancing as the blue-eyed Evolet.

D'[Leh], who resembles early Brad Pitt (very early), is something of a mythic figure in 10,000 BC. We're clued to this from the start, when the narrator (Omar Sharif of all people; nice to see he's still working) tells us things like, \"Only time can tell us what is truth and what is legend\" and \"the love in their hearts grew stronger\" and other staples of the exotic romance. It couldn't be better, really. 10,000 BC was directed by [Roland Emmerich], master of the loud epic (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow). Like most of his work, this movie has a subplot about a father-son relationship -- D'Leh's dad disappeared years earlier with the tribe's totemic white spear -- that adds nothing to the film but a sense of emotional cheesiness. He'd be better off devoting more time to making the action sequences coherent: 10,000 BC features a couple of battles that made little visual sense, although an early hunt of woolly mammoths shows off the movie's main strength, its ability to recreate prehistoric animals and send them thundering across the screen.

D'[Leh], who resembles early Brad Pitt (very early), is something of a mythic figure in 10,000 B.C. We're clued to this from the start, when the narrator (Omar Sharif of all people; nice to see he's still working) tells us things like, \"Only time can tell us what is truth and what is legend\" and \"the love in their hearts grew stronger\" and other staples of the exotic romance. It couldn't be better, really. 10,000 B.C. was directed by [Roland Emmerich], master of the loud epic (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow). Like most of his work, this movie has a subplot about a father-son relationship -- D'Leh's dad disappeared years earlier with the tribe's totemic white spear -- that adds nothing to the film but a sense of emotional cheesiness. He'd be better off devoting more time to making the action sequences coherent: 10,000 B.C. features a couple of battles that made little visual sense, although an early hunt of woolly mammoths shows off the movie's main strength, its ability to recreate prehistoric animals and send them thundering across the screen.

D'[Leh], Tic Tic and two others go off to save their friends and Evolet, launching \"10,000 B.C.\" on a very familiar cinematic journey pasted together from pieces of films as varied as \"Quest for Fire,\" \"Apocalypto,\" \"Helen of Troy,\" \"300\" and a golden oldie titled \"Kings of the Sun.\" Just when you can't imagine how \"10,000 B.C.\" could get any loopier, it turns into a prehistoric \"Braveheart\" with D'Leh uniting the tribes of the known world, each one wanting revenge against the busy evil marauders for enslaving their fellow tribesmen and forcing them to construct a pyramid for a fearsome, never-glimpsed leader eerily called \"The Almighty.\" \"10,000 B.C.\" comes from director [Roland Emmerich], who has made his fortune with special-effects-stuffed action epics such as \"StarGate,\" \"Godzilla,\" \"Independence Day\" and \"The Day After Tomorrow.\"