Paleo-Eskimo

Paleo-Eskimo

The Paleo-Eskimo are the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region of North America before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures across the region. Such groups include the Saqqaq culture of Greenland, the Independence I and Independence II cultures of northeastern Canada and Greenland, and the Dorset culture, which spread across Arctic North America. The Dorset were the last major Paleo-Eskimo culture in the Arctic before the spread of the Thule, the ancestors to the modern Inuit.

References

* [http://www.natmus.dk/sw18630.asp "The Prehistory of Greenland"] . From natmus.dk. Sila, the Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark. Retrieved September 3, 2008.


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