Iqaluktuuq

Thule Inuit - 1250 AD to 1500 AD

About 750 years ago, early Thule Inuit arrived at Iqaluktuuq, after migrating from Alaska in the west. They built large stone houses at the Bell site, with deep entrance tunnels and separate kitchen rooms. The deep archaeological deposits of animal bones and artifacts at this site show us that Thule Inuit led a comfortable, settled life here, depending on stored caribou and char to last them through the winter. Their tools were finely made and complex, and clearly link them to modern Inuit.

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