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[deleted] t1_iw3mh78 wrote

Reply to comment by LargeMonty in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin

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Devil-sAdvocate t1_iw4ut1o wrote

Vikings where certainly not the first ones there and they may even not have been alone. The prehistory of Greenland is a story of repeated waves of Palaeo-Eskimo immigration from the islands north of the North American mainland. Other cultures who inhabited the Island before the Vikings include, The Saqqaq culture: 2500–800 BC (southern Greenland). The Independence I culture: 2400–1300 BC (northern Greenland). The Independence II culture: 800–1 BC (far northern Greenland). The Early Dorset or Dorset I culture: 700 BC–AD 200 (southern Greenland).

There is general consensus that, after the collapse of the Early Dorset culture, the island remained unpopulated for several centuries but the Norse may not have been alone on the island when they arrived; a new influx of Arctic people from the west, the Late Dorset culture, may predate them. However, this culture was limited to the extreme northwest of Greenland, far (~1500 miles) from the Vikings who lived around the southern coasts. Some archaeological evidence may point to this culture slightly predating the Icelandic settlement.

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warhead71 t1_ixu520i wrote

No existing culture are the “first” anywhere - as it is. Besides maybe some very remote islands. The question is more what a native population is.

Other people in the thread talks about trade between Viking and tribes - there are little evidence of that - and they were heavily dependent on cows and European style living in general.

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LargeMonty t1_iw4ugn5 wrote

Uh, no

>From around 2500 BC to 800 BC, southern and western Greenland were inhabited by the Saqqaq culture.

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warhead71 t1_iw4v8he wrote

? - they are no more. Current Greenland natives are from a migration wave going through northern Canada. We all come from Africa (at least that’s the consensus)

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