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Thule culture

prehistoric Arctic culture
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Thule culture, prehistoric culture that developed along the Arctic coast in northern Alaska, possibly as far east as the Amundsen Gulf. Starting about 900 ce, it spread eastward rapidly and reached Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) by the 12th century. It continued to develop in the central areas of Arctic Canada, and cultural communication persisted between these Eastern Thule and the Western Thule of Alaska from approximately 1300 to 1700. Because Thule people resided in the Arctic, their economies were oriented toward hunting. Settlements of permanent houses built of whale bones, skin, and sod, some of them semisubterranean, were located near the ...(100 of 255 words)

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