In 1925 anthropologist Diamond Jenness received artifacts from Cape Dorset. As they were quite different from those of the Inuit, he speculated that … 展开

Origins
The origins of the Dorset people are not well understood. They may have developed from the previous cultures of Pre-Dorset, 展开

There appears to be no genetic connection between the Dorset and the Thule who replaced them. Archaeological and legendary evidence is often thought to support some cultural contact, but this has been questioned. The Dorset people, for instance, engaged in … 展开

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The Dorset adaptation was different from that of the whaling-based Thule Inuit. Unlike the Inuit, they rarely hunted land animals, such as polar bears and caribou. They did not use bows or … 展开

A genetic study published in Science in August 2014 examined the remains of nineteen Dorset people buried in Canada and Greenland between ca. 170 BCE and 1320 CE. The sixteen samples of mtDNA extracted were determined to belong to haplogroup 展开

• Fortescue, Michael; Jacobson, Steven; Kaplan, Lawrence (1994). Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: With Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language … 展开