Fishermen from Portugal, the Basque provinces of France and Spain, Northern France (perhaps Normandy) and West Country England are known to have frequented eastern Newfoundland during the first half of the 1600s, some as early as the first decade of the 16th century.

Archaeologists, after finding artifacts in one of the lower layers of the site, suspected they may have been made by the Beothuk.

An article about the discovery during the 1995 archaeological field season showing evidence that Ferryland had been occupied by the Beothuk.

A text and image-based tour of the defenses created by the settlers of the original Colony of Avalon, 1621 - 1638.

This text and image-based tour examines the structures constructed at the original Colony of Avalon from 1621 to 1638.

A text and image-based tour of the waterfront area of the original Colony of Avalon, 1621 - 1638.

Religion and belief related practices with the Beothuk people.

About the Boyd's Cove beothuk historical site.

Personal appearance and clothing items of the Beothuk people.

Beothuk material culture consists of the physical things left behind by these people including their tools, weapons and features

Shanawdithit and the Extinction of the Beothuk

Distribution and size of the Beothuk population, leadership and communal activities

Beothuk history after contact with the Europeans

Types of Beothuk housing structures

Hunting tools, techniques and food preparation and storage of the Beothuk people.

The Beothuk Institution and preservation of Beothuk history

Beothuk land use precontact with the Europeans

Beothuk language word lists created by Oubee, Demasduit, and Shanawdithit

Types of transportation used by the Beothuk people

The Beothuk are the Indigenous people of Newfoundland. They were Algonkian-speaking hunter-gatherers who probably numbered less than a thousand people at the time of European contact.