… The first people to come into contact with Europeans (around the 10th century) were the Eskimos of Greenland and Labrador. Later, the exploration of the Northwest Passage (a sea route that sailed northwest from Europe, passing through the north of the Americas, and reaching the Pacific Ocean and Asia) and the dispatch of scientific expeditions gradually revealed Eskimo culture. The most famous of these expeditions was the Fifth Thule Expedition, dispatched in the 1920s, led by Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879-1933), a native of Greenland. … From the Denby Flint Culture…The Arctic Small Stone Tool Tradition is widely distributed from southwestern Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula along the Arctic Ocean to northern Alaska, the Canadian Arctic Islands, and Greenland. Because this distribution area overlaps roughly with the distribution area of the Eskimo in historical times, it is interpreted as representing the oldest layer of Eskimo culture and has been considered to indicate the origin of Eskimo culture. Around 1000 BC, the Arctic Small Stone Tool Tradition developed into the next Norton Tradition. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "Eskimo culture" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… ヨーロッパ人が最初(10世紀ごろ)に接触したのは,グリーンランドやラブラドルのエスキモーであった。その後,北西航路(ヨーロッパから北西に航海して,アメリカ大陸の北を経由し,太平洋,アジアに達する航路)の探索や科学的探検隊の派遣により,しだいにエスキモー文化が明らかにされた。一連の探検隊のなかで最も著名なのは,1920年代に派遣された第5次チューレ探検隊で,その中心になったのはグリーンランド出身のラスムッセンKnud Johan Victor Rasmussen(1879‐1933)であった。… 【デンビー・フリント文化】より…極北小型石器伝統は南西アラスカやアラスカ半島から,北極海沿いに,北アラスカ,カナダの北極海諸島,グリーンランドまで広く分布する。この分布域が歴史時代のエスキモーの分布地域とほぼ重なるため,エスキモー文化の最古層を表すものと解釈され,エスキモー文化の起源を示すものとされてきた。極北小型石器伝統は,前1000年ころ,つぎのノートン伝統へと発展してゆく。… ※「エスキモー文化」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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