The first humans of the eastern Arctic, microblade hunters who swept from the Bering Strait across Arctic Canada to Greenland in only a few centuries around 2400 BC.
Their thin, cold-adapted bands dwindled and gave way to the Dorset across the 800-500 BC transition; the frozen Saqqaq sites of Disko Bay (Qeqertasussuk, Qajaa) preserve their tents, bows and burned-bone hearths.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Saqqaq & Pre-Dorset (Arctic Small Tool Tradition) — the shape you scrub through changes in 2500 BC · 2200 BC · 1499 BC.
Authoritative account of the Arctic Small Tool tradition peoples who first crossed the eastern Arctic.
A classic narrative of the earliest microblade hunters of the American Arctic (broad context).