Multiple Indigenous occupations of Newfoundland since the Younger Dryas

“Indigenous people have been on the far northeastern edge of Canada for most of the last 10,000 years, moving in shortly after the ice retreated from the Last Glacial Maximum. Archaeological evidence suggests that people with distinct cultural traditions inhabited the region at least three different times with a possible hiatus for a period between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago.”

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-newfoundland-populated-multiple-distinct-groups.html#jCp

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