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The Thule were the ancestors of all modern Canadian Inuit. They arrived at Alaska in around the year 500 and Nunavut, Canada in 1000 and a subgroup soon went even more easterly to Greenland by the 13th century. The link between the Thule and the Inuit are biological, cultural, and linguistic. The Thule subsisted both on marine and terrestrial animals. They replaced the Dorset culture, which, however did not become extinct until 1902, when whalers brought disease to the last Dorset settlement on Southampton Island (the Sadlermiut).

The Thule winter settlements had usually one to four houses with around ten people. Some major ones may had more than a dozen, although not all were inhabited simultaneously by the fifty residents there. Their houses were made of whale bones from summer. Other architectures have been discovered, such as kill sites, cacheThis article is about the computer term. For towns with this name, see Cache, Utah or Cache, Oklahoma and for general sense Cache in general. In computer science, a cache is a collection of duplicate data, where the original data is expensive to fetch ors, and tentA tent is a temporary or semipermanent shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles. It is fairly easy to assemble pitch or disassemble, and is usually portable. Tents may be attached to the ground encampments.

Some Thule migrated southward, in the "Second Expansion" or "Second Phase". By the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the Thule had occupied an area currently resided by Central Eskimo , and contacts with EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Seans began and henceforward known as the EskimoEskimo is a term used for a group of people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding circumpolar Scandinavia and all but the easternmost portions of Russia) There are two main groups of Eskimo: the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland and t.

See also: ThuleThule is a name commonly associated with northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things: The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of Scandinavia The Thule culture, ancestors of the Inuit Qaanaaq, a town in nort

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