Definitions
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- adj. 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.
Etymologies
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paleo- (“old, primeval”) + Eskimo
Examples
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The first inhabitants were several Paleo-Eskimo societies.
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With a technology adapted to exploit a resource that the indigenous population of this part of the Arctic could not, the migrants rapidly displaced the late Paleo-Eskimo population that had developed in situ over the previous two millennia from the whole of Nunavut, Ungava – Labrador, and Greenland.
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Gilbert MT, Kivisild T, Gronnow B, Andersen PK, Metspalu E, et al. (2008) Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA genome reveals matrilineal discontinuity in Greenland.
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The Greenlander belonged to a Paleo-Eskimo culture called the Saqqaq by archaeologists.
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Inuk's Ancestry: The 4,000 Year-Old Paleo-Eskimo Genome
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