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I can't watch the video because 'This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.' The phrase
by dalke 11y ago
I can't watch the video because 'This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.'
The phrase 'Arctic Highlanders' helped identify them as the Inughuit. http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Inughuit-Orientation.html http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Inughuit-Orientati... clarifies it futher:
> Over the decades, the Inughuit have been renamed a number of times by White visitors. "Polar Eskimo," the most common name, was given by Knud Rasmussen in 1903. The Inughuit call themselves "the great and real human beings," and until White contact in 1818, they believed that they were the only humans in the world. "Thule Inuit" is a misnomer, as it refers to the prehistoric culture antecedent to all current Inuit groups.
Do note that this is a small number of the most northern Inuit of Greenland. With your clarification, I think your original 'Inuit communities in Canada' is better stated as 'a few Inuit communities in Greenland'.
And again, most but not all of the Greenland iron came from the meteorites. Quoting the abstract from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/104458039290112U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/10445803929... :
> Seventy-four iron objects were randomly selected from the archaeological items found in Greenland and have been stored in Copenhagen since about 1850. The objects consist of knives, ulos (knife used by Eskimo women for skinning), and harpoon blades, but also several nonworked fragments and some “hammerstones” were included. The objects were subjected to microscopical examination and x-ray microanalysis to determine their nature and mode of fabrication. The objects may be sorted into three groups. The majority of tools found north of Melville Bay were produced from small fragments of the Cape York iron meteorite shower that fell near Savigsivik over 2000 years ago. Half of the objects found in the Disko Bay area may be traced to occurrences of iron-bearing basalt, while the other half were produced from wrought iron. Some of these wrought-iron tools originated at Norse settlements and were apparently carried as far north as 77° by Norse ships as early as the 12th Century. Other wrought-iron tools were introduced by whalers, mainly of Dutch, Spanish and British origin, after about a.d. 1575. Some tools may derive from iron nails and hoops from wrecked ships. No signs of indigenous iron production have been detected.