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| Institution(s): |
Canadian Museum of Civilization
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| Year created: | 2003 |
| Coverage dates: | ca. 1000 AD |
| Description: | Archaeological discussions of interaction between peoples occupying the eastern Arctic in the centuries around AD 1000 have centered on contacts between Inuit and Dorset Palaeo-Eskimos, and those between Inuit and Greenlandic Norse.
In recent years, a growing body of evidence has facilitated discussion of Inuit-Norse interactions. A number of significant discoveries made in the last two decades in the Canadian Arctic suggests that relations between these two peoples involved more than hostile encounters and the looting of abandoned Norse farms by Thule Inuit searching for metal.
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| Audience(s): | advanced |
| Language(s) of exhibit: | English, French |
| Copyright information: | Copyright Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Written permission of the author required for citing or quoting from this article. |
| Subjects: |
Archaeology
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