@article {9745,
	title = {The Earliest Thule Migration},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {22},
	year = {1999},
	pages = {139-156},
	abstract = {<p>It is suggested that the earliest Thule migrations into Arctic Canada took the form of small-scale, very rapid population movements aimed at the greater Lancaster Sound area north and northwest of Baffin Island. Early Inuit appear to have been attracted by unusually rich bowhead whale stocks, which they and their descendants continued to exploit during classic Thule times. Palaeoenvironmental data, however, do not suggest that Thule hunters in any way \&$\#$39;followed\&$\#$39; the whales during an expansive Medieval Warm Epoch. Rather, to get to Lancaster Sound they had to cross many hundreds of kilometres of essentially uninhabitable wasteland. How early Thule hunters learned what lay on the other side of that wasteland, and how they and their families successfully crossed it, will never be known in detail, but it is one of the great accomplishments of human history.</p>},
	author = {David Morrison}
}
