- Early Paleoeskimo
The Early Paleoeskimo is one of three distinct periods of human occupation recognized by archaeologists in the eastern
North America nArctic , the others being theLate Paleoeskimo and theThule . Dates for these occupations vary according to specific geographic region and cultural historical perspective, but it is generally agreed that the first, the "Early Paleoeskimo", spans roughly 4500Before Present (BP) to 28-2300 BP.The Early Paleoeskimo tradition
The Early Paleoeskimo tradition is known by a number of local, and sometimes spatially and temporally overlapping and related variants including the
Independence I culture in the High Arctic andGreenland ,Saqqaq in Greenland,Pre-Dorset in the High and Central Arctic and theBaffin /Ungava region andGroswater inNewfoundland and Labrador . More generally these are subsumed under a largermicrolith tradition known as theArctic Small Tool Tradition . Their ancestral origins are presumed to lie inAlaska , and ultimatelySiberia andEurasia .Sources
Murray, M.S. (2005). Prehistoric Use of Ringed Seals: A Zooarchaeological Study from Arctic Canada. "Environmental Archaeology" 10 (1): 19-38.
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