The different cultures in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and the Canadian arctic islands between 900AD and 1500AD.
The Thule (US: /ˈθuːli/, /ˈtuːli/, UK: /ˈθjuːli/)[1][2] or proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit. They developed in coastal Alaska by the year 1000 and expanded eastward across northern Canada, reaching Greenland by the 13th century.[3] In the process, they replaced people of the earlier Dorset culture that had previously inhabited the region. The appellation "Thule" originates from the location of Thule (relocated and renamed Qaanaaq in 1953) in northwest Greenland, facing Canada, where the archaeological remains of the people were first found at Comer's Midden.
Evidence supports the idea that the Thule (and, to a lesser degree, the Dorset) were in contact with the Vikings, who had reached the shores of Canada in the 11th century as part of Norse colonization of North America. In Viking sources, these peoples are called the Skrælingjar.
Some Thule migrated southward, in the "Second Expansion" or "Second Phase". By the 13th or 14th century, the Thule had occupied an area inhabited until then by the Central Inuit, and by the 15th century, the Thule had replaced the Dorset.
Intensified contacts with Europeans began in the 18th century. Compounded by the already disruptive effects of the "Little Ice Age" (1650–1850), the Thule communities broke apart, and the people were henceforward known as the Eskimo, and later, Inuit.
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^"Thule". Oxford English Dictionary (second ed.). Oxford University Press. 1989. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^McGhee, Robert (3 April 2015). "Thule Culture". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada.
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[better source needed] Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thulepeople, who emerged from the Bering Strait and western Alaska around 1000 CE...
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and Danes as well as other Europeans. The Inuit are descended from the Thulepeople, who settled Greenland in between AD 1200 and 1400. As 84 percent of...
from Northern Canada, e.g. the Thulepeople. Therefore, Greenland shares some cultural ties with the indigenous peoples of Canada. Greenland is also considered...
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west and the east. It lasted until the total onset of the Thule culture, in AD 1500. The people of the Dorset culture lived mainly by hunting whales and...
deposits. The migration of the Thulepeople coincides with the decline of the Dorset, who died out between 800 and 1500. While Thule settlers may have adopted...
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reach their apex The Inuit Thulepeople have completely displaced the old Dorset culture in Arctic Alaska. Pueblo people in the American Southwest evacuate...
Pre-Dorset, and the Independence traditions. These two groups, ancestors of Thulepeople, were displaced by the Inuit by 1000 CE.: 179–81 PP S L The Old Copper...
years ago, people and their dogs did not settle in the Arctic until the Paleo-Eskimo people 4,500 years ago, followed by the Thulepeople 1,000 years...
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rose to 800 in 2010. The Inughuit are believed to be descended from the Thulepeople who spread across the North American Arctic around the eleventh century...
characteristic of the Thulepeople and Inuit, suggesting that the Sadlermiut were derived from the Thulepeople. It was found that the Thulepeople were further...
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