The Early Paleo-Eskimo tradition is known by a number of local, and sometimes spatially and temporally overlapping and related variants including the Independence I culture in the High Arctic and Greenland, Saqqaq culture in Greenland, Pre-Dorset in the High and Central Arctic and the Baffin/Ungava region and Groswater in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Early Paleo-Eskimo tradition is marked by a variety of regional cultures that share commonalities, including Independence I in the High Arctic and Greenland, Saqqaq in Greenland, Pre-Dorset across the High and Central Arctic, Baffin/Ungava region, and Groswater in Newfoundland and Labrador.