Indigenous people have been on the far northeastern edge of Canada for most of the last 10,000 years, moving in shortly after the ice retreated from the Last Glacial Maximum. Archaeological evidence ...

EDMUNTON, CANADA—A new study of carved pendants made by the Beothuk people of Newfoundland offers insight into their thoughts on the afterlife. The Beothuk nation had lived in Newfoundland for at ...

ONTARIO, CANADA—The Globe and Mail reports that a team of researchers led by Hendrik Poinar and Ana Duggan of McMaster University has recovered mitochondrial DNA from the remains of 19 individuals who ...

This paper explores pre-contact hunting at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Newfoundland, Canada during the Late Holocene. Data from over 40 years of excavations are interpreted in light ...

Oct. 12 (UPI) --According to genetic analysis, Newfoundland, the northeastern Canadian island, was populated by three distinct groups -- in three different waves -- over the last 10,000 years. When ...

"The Beothuk, an American Indian tribe of hunter-gathers, are thought to have inhabited the island of Newfoundland for more than 1500 years until they became extinct in the nineteenth century." "NEARA ...