James Tuck (archaeologist)

[2] He subsequently began teaching and practicing archaeology as a faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

His early work included unearthing the Maritime Archaic burial ground at Port au Choix.

Starting in 1969 he led teams that excavated Inuit graves on Rose Island which is now in Torngat Mountains National Park.

A further 11 Inuit remains were repatriated in a special ceremony on August 16, 2011, attended by the Honourable Kathy Dunderdale, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nunatsiavut President Jim Lyall.

[citation needed] Tuck was a supporter of Patricia Sutherland's controversial theory[7][8][9] that there was European contact with the Dorset on Baffin Island, Canada, hundreds of years before the Norse started settling in Greenland in 985 CE.