How long have people lived in the Arctic?
People have inhabited various regions of the Arctic for thousands of years. The earliest known evidence of humans in the Arctic is from 40,000 years ago in Western Siberia. The earliest presence of peoples in North America dates back 15,000 years when humans inhabited Alaska. Researchers believe that Greenland and the Canadian Arctic were settled 11,000 years after Alaska, approximately 4,000 years ago.
