Approximately 4,500 years ago, a group of terrestrial mammal hunters spread eastward from Beringia to Greenland. There they established small settlements along the Alaskan and Canadian coasts.Known collectively as the Paleo-Eskimos, these people inhabited the northern Arctic coast for the next 3,000 years, developing regional cultural variants in Canada and Greenland.Then, around 750 to 800 years ago, a new cultural tradition focused on whale hunting the Neo-Eskimo Thule quickly expanded eastward through Paleo-Eskimo territories, reaching Greenland in just a few centuries .
These Neo-Eskimos were the inhabitants encountered during European contact and became the Alaskan Inupiat, Canadian and Greenlandic Inuit, and Siberian Eskimo as we know them today.

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