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THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — On a bitter late September day, in water temperatures at the base pier around 32 degrees, two Inuit men visiting Thule to demonstrate their culture took to the harbor ...
The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
At Dundas Harbour, just steps from the RCMP post lies the rocky remains of a roughly 1,000-year-old ancestral Inuit “neighborhood.” The Morin Point Thule site holds clues to the first pioneers ...
The Thule Inuit, ancestors of the present-day Inuit, were a group of whalers currently estimated to have arrived in Canada approximately 800 years ago. However, after analysis of pond sediment ...
Credit: Mikkel Høegh-Post Based on their expeditions and subsequent calculations, the team believes trips towards areas populated by North American Indigenous communities like the Thule Inuit ...
Thule Air Base in Greenland ... approximately 88% identify as Greenlandic Inuit or Kalaallit, according to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Renaming the base appears to ...
A recent study provides new insights into ancient cultures in Canada’s Arctic, focusing on Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples over thousands of years. Jules Blais, professor of biology at the ...
Alternatively, perhaps the Norse stayed put in southern Greenland and traded with the Thule Inuit there. Also around the 13th century, the Thule Inuit had recently migrated to these same northern ...
The Arctic has been home to various cultures, such as the Paleo-Inuit (2500 BCE to 1250 CE) and the Thule-Inuit (1200 to1500 CE). Although historical evidence is scarce, this recent study provides ...
A team led by University of Ottawa researchers says it's discovered evidence that ancestors of today's Inuit peoples arrived in Canada's Arctic centuries earlier than previously estimated. The Thule ...