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.

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 ...

The Arctic has been home to various cultures, such as the Paleo-Inuit (2500 BCE to 1250 CE) and the Thule-Inuit (1200 to 1500 CE). Although historical evidence is scarce, this recent study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Large communal winter houses and evidence of communal hunting of caribou via hides and drive systems are distinctive characteristics, along with archaeological sites from the Saqqaq (2500-700 BC), ...

Invited by Rasmussen to join the Fifth Thule Expedition, a yearslong attempt to document the lives of Inuit peoples from Greenland to Siberia, Freuchen and Navarana could not refuse. On the eve of ...

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 ...

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 ...