Early Arctic and Subarctic (Module 06)

	Principle 3: Social Relevance - The role of environment on the development of past societies

		Discussion - The Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems both have presented opportunities and constraints 
		to ancient human cultural development. This section looks at the ancient cultural trajectories that have been 
		reconstructed for these broad environmental zones and then focuses in on sub-regions within them 
		(especially with regard to the Subarctic cultural area). That these regions were not climatologically static is 
		also discussed, in particular with regard to the movements of the Thule peoples in the ancient Arctic during 
		times of supposed global warming.