Certainly the subarctic was populated well-before 10kya[0], but I was under the impression that the true arctic saw long-term inhabitants before the Paleo-Inuit

Certainly the subarctic was populated well-before 10kya[0], but I was under the impression that the true arctic saw long-term inhabitants before the Paleo-Inuit[1], with the Paleo-Arctic tradition around 10-7kya[2]. But looking now, its not clear to me if they were far enough north to count. [0] https://www.researchgate.net/project/Late-Pleistocene-Archaeology-of-the-Tanana-Valley-Alaska https://www.researchgate.net/project/Late-Pleistocene-Archae... [1] Who arrived in the Arctic circle around 4-5kya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Eskimo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Eskimo) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Arctic_Tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Arctic_Tradition