For hunting, the Inuit used spears, bow and arrows, clubs and stone traps. The Inuit used knives for cutting meat, and also snow and ice. A special knife that the Inuit used was called an ‘ulu’. Ulus was used for skinning animals, preparing the animal skins, and buthchering.

An ulu (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐅᓗ, plural: uluit, English: “woman’s knife”) is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, inupiaq, Yupik, and Aleut women.

The Aleut did not make pottery but instead made most of their tools, weapons, and artistic objects out of animal bone or stone.

Modern harpoon heads are often made of a combination of brass and steel but, prior to contact with Europeans, native copper was frequently used by the ‘Copper Inuit’ (from the Coronation Gulf area) for harpoon end blades and rivets.

The Inuit harpoon and Inuit hunting tools Inuit Harpoon Modern technology has replaced numerous traditional tools that the Inuit people used to survive in the Artic. However, one chief tool used by the Inuit people which is still in use today and has not been replaced is the Inuit harpoon.

The Inuit made very clever things from the bones, antlers, and wood they had. They invented the harpoon, which was used to hunt seals and whales. They built boats from wood or bone covered with animal skins. They invented the kayak for one man to use for hunting the ocean and among the pack ice.

Inuit is the contemporary term for “Eskimo”. First Nation is the contemporary term for “Indian”. Inuit are “Aboriginal” or “First Peoples”, but are not “First Nations”, because “First Nations” are Indians. Inuit are not Indians.

As early humans started migrating north into Europe and east into Asia, they were exposed to different amounts of sun. Those who went north found their dark skin worked against them–preventing them from absorbing enough sunlight to create vitamin D. But Inuits’ vitamin D intake wasn’t dependent upon the sun.

Inuit have always eaten food raw, frozen, thawed out, dried, aged, or cached ( Slightly aged ) meat for thousands of years. People still eat uncooked meat today. Raw meat will keep the hunter energized and mobile to do his chores effectively and productively. A cooked meal will be digested much quicker than raw meat.

Northern Native peoples live at latitudes that receive too little sunlight most of the year for vitamin D synthesis in the skin. Their skin is darker than that of Europeans and thus blocks more solar UVB.

Natives of Buka and Bougainville at the northern Solomon Islands in Melanesia and the Chopi people of Mozambique in the southeast coast of Africa have darker skin than other surrounding populations. (The native people of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, have some of the darkest skin pigmentation in the world.)

Melanin. Melanin is a pigment found in skin cells. Pheomelanin is a red-yellow coloured pigment and the primary type of melanin in fair skinned individuals who are prone to sunburn. Eumelanin offers better protection from the sun’s UV rays compared to pheomelanin.

A new study by Missouri School of Journalism researcher Cynthia Frisby found that people perceive a light brown skin tone to be more physically attractive than a pale or dark skin tone.

Eating vitamin C–rich foods like citrus, berries, and leafy green vegetables may optimize melanin production. Taking a vitamin C supplement may help as well.

Analysis of melanosome size revealed a significant and progressive variation in size with ethnicity: African skin having the largest melanosomes followed in turn by Indian, Mexican, Chinese and European.

Caucasian skin had the smallest amount of pigment and smallest melanosomes, which were mostly contained within melanosome complexes. Further findings included that melanosome size is directly proportional to the intensity of skin pigmentation, and darkly pigmented subjects have larger, wider and denser melanosomes.

4.543 billion years

The skeletons of these very early people have been found by archaeologists in places like Morocco in North Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya in East Africa, and in South Africa. So, one answer to your question is to say that the first person came from Africa around 200,000 years ago.