Some of the faces are human, some are animals, and some are anthropomorphic.
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It is a series of 150 petroglyph faces carved in stone by the Dorset Culture. Qajartalik is one of Canada’s proposed UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It seems that somewhere between 1000 AD (precisely when the Inuit arrived) and 1500 AD, the Dorset Culture mysteriously vanished. They did not hunt land animals such as polar bears or caribou like the Inuit, instead relying entirely on hunting ocean mammals like sea lions, walruses, and narwhals. It appears that they did not use bow and arrow technology, nor did they use drills. The Dorset Culture artifacts depicted men and women wearing hoodless parkas with tall collars. These Arctic Circle artifacts immediately stood out as distinct and far more ancient that Inuit objects. They were named after Cape Dorset, Nunavut, where Dorset Culture artifacts were first found in 1925. William Fitzhugh, from the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institute.
“Ever since the discovery of a Paleo-Eskimo culture in the North American Arctic in 1925, archaeologists have been mystified by their relationship with the Thule culture ancestors of the modern Inuit,” said Dr. (Ansgar Walk / CC BY-SA 2.5 ) The Enigmatic Dorset Culture and the Qajartalik Petroglyphs of the Arctic Circleīefore the ancestors of the modern Inuit People, also known as Thule People, migrated east from Alaska around 1100 AD, the region had been inhabited for thousands of years by the mysterious Dorset Culture. At least these groups had endothermy,” he stated, referring to the ability of animals to heat their bodies through internal functions. If they overwintered there, they had to deal with conditions that we don’t usually associate with dinosaurs, like freezing conditions and snow. “If they reproduced, then they over-wintered there. Druckenmiller believes that their fossil findings (70-million-year-old baby dinosaur bones and eggs) upend past assumptions that dinosaurs were cold-blooded reptiles. Pat Druckenmiller, Director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North is the lead author of a study just published in the journal Current Biology. But he is confident that there are still many fossils left to be discovered there.Īlaska Dinosaur Discoveries and Dino DebatesĪcross the continent on the Alaskan side, more recent reports of dinosaur fossil excavations emerging within the Arctic Circle are stirring up some debate in the paleontology community. They also have to contend with the reality that permafrost tends to break up fossil skeletons as it grinds through its freeze-thaw cycles. Vavrek also said that paleontologists have barely looked for dinosaur fossils in the Canadian High Arctic because of its exorbitant cost and brutal logistics to get there. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grand Prairie, Alta., explained that the discovery helps to reveal the true range of where dinosaurs once roamed. Vavrek, curator and head paleontologist at the Philip J. Hadrosaurs were herbivores who sported stylish duckbills and sometimes crests atop their heads, and this particular hadrosaur was about 8 meters (26 ft) long.
Unravelling the Spellbinding Story of the Inuksuit – Mysterious Structures from the Prehistoric Arctic.The Thule Culture: Medieval Mariners Migrating In Search Of Meteoritic Iron.It was discovered on Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of the closest human habitation. The fossil is a vertebra from the spinal cord of a duck-billed species known as a hadrosaur. In 2014, it was reported by CBC Science that a dinosaur fossil from Canadian High Arctic, the most northerly dinosaur fossil ever discovered. (Matti&Keti / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Dinosaur Discoveries and Debates from the Arctic Circle Geneticists are using genomic studies to unlock DNA puzzles, paleontologists are unearthing once inaccessible dinosaur bones, and even common folk around the globe are using satellite imagery to transform our understanding of the origins of life within the Arctic Circle.ĭesolate landscape of Axel Heiberg Island within the Arctic Circle. During the summer solstice, the heart of the midnight sun is just visible at the southernmost point.Īdvances in technology are enabling scientists and researchers to discover new insights in this frozen, mysterious wilderness. It marks the northernmost point at which the center of the noon sun is just visible on the winter solstice. The Arctic Circle is the farthest northern of the five major circles of latitude on the planet.
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