First People in Greenland

Jens Fog Jensen; Ulla  Odgaard; Svend Visby Funder; Patrick Plumet

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-813532-7.00018-8

First People in Greenland

Jens Fog Jensen, Ulla Odgaard, Svend Visby Funder, Patrick Plumet

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Greenland and the eastern part of the Canadian Arctic were populated in the Holocene by three main human groups, the bearers of the cultures of Independence I, Saqqaq, and pre-Dorset, who appeared in the region of the Gulf of Nares c.5000 BP. These represented different types of adaptations close to the culture Denby (Alaska) and the Arctic Small Tool tradition. The pre-Dorset culture developed at the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. One of the Paleoeskimo groups, the bearers of the culture Saqqaq, settled in the western part of the island, while the people of Independence I invaded the northernmost part and settled in the Peary Land. It seems that migrations were connected with the spread of musk oxen. The Independence I persisted in Greenland only during several centuries. Paleoeskimo groups inhabited this land for 3500. years and seem to have disappeared when the bearers of the Thule culture (the ancestors of modern Inuit) invaded this land around AD 1200.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human colonization of the Arctic : The interaction between early migration and the paleoenvironment
Editors	Kotlyakov, Velichko, Vasil'ev
Number of pages	39
Publisher	Academic Press
Publication date	13 Sept 2017
Pages	367-405
Chapter	5.1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-12-813532-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813532-7.00018-8
Publication status	Published - 13 Sept 2017

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