Prehistory of the Arctic

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cave paintings located in and around the municipality of Alta in the county of Finnmark in northern Norway

Paleo-Eskimo culture (500 BCE–1500 CE) that preceded the Inuit in the Arctic of North America

island in Lyakhovsky Islands, Russia

island in De Long Islands, Russia

ancestors of modern Inuit people

female wooly mammoth calf mummy

Paleo-Eskimo culture in Greenland existing from around 2500 BCE until about 800 BCE

Arctica or Arctida is a hypothetical ancient continent which formed approximately 2.565 billion years ago in the Neoarchean era. It was made of Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/Aldan shields in Siberia, and the Slave, Wyoming, Superior, and North Atlantic cratons in North America. Arctica was named by because the Arctic Ocean formed by the separation of the North American and Siberian cratons. Russian geologists writing in English call the continent "Arctida" since it was given that name in 1987, alternatively the Hyperborean craton, in reference to the hyp

island in Greenland

island on Lake Inari in Inari, Finland

island off Greenlands eastcoast

The Paleo-Eskimo (meaning 'old Eskimos'), also known as Paleo-Inuit, were the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region from Chukotka (e.g., Chertov Ovrag) in present-day Russia across North America to Greenland before the arrival of the modern Inuit and related cultures (formerly called Eskimo). The first known Paleo-Eskimo cultures developed by 3900 to 3600 BCE, but were gradually displaced in most of the region, with the last one, the Dorset culture, disappearing around 1500 CE.

hypothetical geoclimactic event

archaeological culture

archaeological site in Yukon, Canada

Paleo-Eskimo culture that flourished in northeastern Greenland (700 BCE to 80 BCE), north and south of the Independence Fjord

Paleo-Eskimo culture of peoples who lived in northern Greenland from 2,400 to 1,000 B.C

Borealonectes is a genus of rhomaleosaurid pliosauroid, a type of plesiosaur. Its fossils were found in the Callovian-age (Middle Jurassic, about 165-161 million years ago) Hiccles Cove Formation of Melville Island, Canada, one of the islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is based on a skull, neck vertebrae, and the right forelimb of one individual. Named in 2008 by Sato and Wu, Borealonectes is one of the few plesiosaurs known from the Jurassic of North America, and the first marine reptile from the Canadian Arctic with a well-preserved skull. The type species is B. russelli.

Canadian wetland & archaeological site

archaeological culture associated with a distinctive, elaborate circle and dot aesthetic style and is centered on the Bering Strait region; no site is more than 1 km from the ocean

British paleoclimatologist

alaskan archaeological culture

hypothesis regarding ecology in formerly glaciated regions

prehistoric Siberia

island in the Kola Bay, Barents Sea, Russia

extinct archaeogenetic lineage

early Neolithic culture of Yakutia and Eastern Siberia

Neolithic culture

population of a cold-adapted species remaining after its glacier habitat has receded

Mesozoic-era seaway that lay along the northern border of Laurasia

series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith

human settlement in Russia