Everything about Thule People totally explained
The
Thule or
proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Canadian
Inuit. They arrived at
Alaska in around the year 500
CE and
Nunavut,
Canada in 1000 CE. A subgroup then moved east to
Greenland by the 13th century. The appellation of "
Thule" originates from the location of Thule (in 1953 relocated to
Qaanaaq) in northwest Greenland, facing Canada, where the
archaeological remains of these people were first found at
Comer's Midden. The links between the Thule and the Inuit are
biological,
cultural, and
linguistic.
History
There is good evidence to support the idea that the Thule (and the Dorset, but to a lesser degree) were in contact with the
Vikings, who touched the banks of what is now modern Canada in roughly 1000 CE. Some Thule migrated southward, in the "Second Expansion" or "Second Phase". By the 13th or 14th century, the Thule had occupied an area currently inhabited by the
Central Inuit, and by the 15th century, the Thule replaced the
Dorset culture. 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.
Culture
Known for using
slate knives and
toggling harpoons, the Thule subsisted primarily on marine animals—especially large
sea mammals—and resources.
Thule winter settlements usually had one to four houses with around ten people. Their houses were made of
whale bones from summer hunts. Other structures included kill sites, food caches, and
tent encampments. Some major settlements may have had more than a dozen houses, although not all were inhabited at the same time by the fifty residents.
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