Rankin, L. (2008). Native Peoples from the Ice Age to the Extinction of the Beothuk
(c.9,000 Years Ago to AD 1829. In Newfoundland Historical Society, Eds. A Short History of
Newfoundland and Labrador (pp. 1-22).
5 Keywords:
1. Adaptability
2. Colonize
3. Migration
4. Pioneers
5. Settlement
Informative Summary:
In this chapter ‘Native Peoples from the Ice Age to the Extinction of the Beothuk
(c.9,000 Years Ago to AD 1829’ by means of Lisa Rankin in the book A Short History of
Newfoundland and Labrador, Rankin offers a precise overview of the first settlers in
Newfoundland and Labrador. There are eight portrayed culture groups from earliest to
most recent that have settled here in Newfoundland and Labrador beginning with the
Labrador Archaic population somewhere between 9000 and 3500 years ago. These people
traveled across the Bering land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska and persisted to
survey the Americas. The Labrador Archaic People had to adapt to the new environment
by changing their eating habits; they had to do greater collecting food such as plant life
and berries alternatively than strictly hunting. Following these pioneers came the Maritime
Archaic populace approximately 6500 to 3200 years ago or possibly beforehand as the
coast of Newfoundland has been slowly immersing in the sea maybe submerging some of
the beforehand sites underwater. These people have been the first to settle on the island of
Newfoundland travelling via the Strait of Belle Isle. Next got here the Pre-Dorest Paleo-
eskimo at about 4100-3500 years in the past claiming their spot as the first populace to
inhabit the northern arctic. The Intermediate Indians followed soon after at approximately
3200 to 2000 years ago. This populace has combined understandings from archeologists as
it cannot be proven if they are a completely new populace to the province or if this is an
adaptive exchange made through the Maritime Archaic. The Groswater Paleo-eskimo and
the Dorest Paleo-eskimo both inhabited Newfoundland and Labrador around the identical
time with Groswater approximately 2800 to 1900 years ago and the Dorest about 2000 to
1100 years ago. The Recent Indians got here to Labrador 2000 to four hundred years ago
and finally, the most recent Thule population got here to Labrador approximately 1450-
400 years ago.
