Re: Paleo-eskimo were building boats in Greenland 4000 years ago.

From: Erik Hammerstad (egeha.is.all.you.need_at_start.no)
Date: 07/27/04


Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:45:27 +0200

Eric Stevens wrote:
> I confess.
>
> I was wrong.
>
> Floyd L. Davidson and now Martyn Harrison are quite right..
>
> The Inuit had moved into Greenland more than 4000 years ago.
> One of the things they were doing was building boats.
>

The above is 100% correct, just replace Inuit with Paleo-eskimo
and neither Seppo nor Eric nor Inger can dispute it. Furthermore
_driftwood_ was used for the boat skeletons and also tools such as
knife and harpoon shafts. See pp 90-96 in
http://www.dpc.dk/PolarPubs/MoG/Dokumenter/MS30.pdf



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