Paleo-Eskimo

English Alternative forms en Palaeo-Eskimo, en Palaeoeskimo en Paleoeskimo en less-common alternative forms Palae-Eskimo<qq:uncommon, dated> Palaeeskimo<ll:rare> Palæ-Eskimo,Palæeskimo<qq:rare; archaic or used by non-native speakers> Etymology From en paleo Eskimo old, primeval. The scholar David J. Meltzer writes that the people are "badly named: there is nothing to indicate they are ancestral Eskimo or spoke an Eskimo language; today's Eskimo refer to them as the Tuniit".First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America 0520943155, 2009), page 214 Pronunciation en /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/ US Noun p The inhabitants and/or native cultures of the North American Arctic region before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures in the region; the Saqqaq, Independence I and II, and/or Dorset cultures and peoples. See also en Neoeskimo References