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Paleo-Eskimo

Paleo-Eskimo

English

Alternative forms

  • Palaeo-Eskimo, Palaeoeskimo
  • Paleoeskimo

Adjective

Paleo-Eskimo (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants and/or native cultures of the North American Arctic region before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures in the region; of or pertaining to the Saqqaq, Independence I and II, and/or Dorset cultures and/or their peoples.

See also

References

  1. First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (ISBN 0520943155, 2009), page 214