Paleo-Eskimo
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English
Alternative forms
less-common alternative forms
- Palae-Eskimo (uncommon, dated)
- Palaeeskimo (rare)
- Palæ-Eskimo, Palæeskimo (rare; archaic or used by non-native speakers)
Etymology
From paleo- (“old, primeval”) + Eskimo. The scholar David J. Meltzer writes that the people are "badly named: there is nothing to indicate they are ancestral Eskimo or spoke an Eskimo language; today's Eskimo refer to them as the Tuniit".[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
- The inhabitants and/or native cultures of the North American Arctic region before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures in the region; the Saqqaq, Independence I and II, and/or Dorset cultures and peoples.
See also
- Neoeskimo
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