Bjarne Grønnow
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bjarne Grønnow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bjarne |
| FAMILY NAME | Grønnow |
| SIGNATURE | GRONNOW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arctic Centre at the Ethnographic Collections (SILA), National Museum of Denmark, Frederiksholms Kanal 12, 1220 Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…
The Initial Peopling of the Circumpolar North
When and why did the originally tropical being, Homo sapiens , enter the circumpolar north? What attracted human societies to this part of the Earth characterized by extreme seasonal variability, long periods of darkness, rough and cold weather, barren tundra, high mountains, ice caps, and vast areas of sea ice? Through analyses of ancient material remains such as stone-built structures, artefacts and bones preserved in cultural layers on dwellin…
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience
Greenland, Archaeology of
Archives of human-dog relationships: Genetic and stable isotope analysis of Arctic fur clothing
Among Indigenous populations of the Arctic, domestic dogs (Canislupus familiaris) were social actors aiding in traction and subsistence activities. Less commonly, dogs fulfilled a fur-bearing role in both the North American and Siberian Arctic. Examples of garments featuring dog skins were collected during the 19th-20th centuries and are now curated by the National Museum of Denmark. We sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of macroscopically ident…
Greenland, Archaeology of
Introducing the North Water: Histories of exploration, ice dynamics, living resources, and human settlement in the Thule Region
The North Water is a recurrent polynya in the High Arctic situated between Northwest Greenland and Ellesmere Island of Canada. The North Water makes a dynamic space, where various processes may enhance or obstruct each other, accelerating or halting particular modes of human-animal relations in the region, where life itself depends on the North Water. This will be discussed in four steps. The first step posits the North Water as a perceived oasis…
Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources a…
Life around the North Water ecosystem: Natural and social drivers of change over a millennium
The formation of the North Water in Smith Sound about 4500 years ago, as evidenced by the establishment of bird colonies and human presence, also initiated a long-term anthropogenic agent as part of this High Arctic ecosystem. Different epochs have influenced the human occupation in the area: immigration pulses from Canada and Alaska, trade with meteorite iron throughout the Arctic, introduction of new technologies by whalers and explorers, explo…
Living in an oasis: Rapid transformations, resilience, and resistance in the North Water Area societies and ecosystems
Based on lake sediment data, archaeological findings, and historical records, we describe rapid transformations, resilience and resistance in societies and ecosystems, and their interactions in the past in the North Water area related to changes in climate and historical events. Examples are the formation of the polynya itself and the early arrival of people, ca. 4500 years ago, and later major human immigrations (different societies, cultural en…
On the crucial importance of a small bird: The ecosystem services of the little auk (Alle alle) population in Northwest Greenland in a long-term perspective
The little auk is the most numerous seabird in the North Atlantic and its most important breeding area is the eastern shores of the North Water polynya. Here, a population of an estimated 33 million pairs breeds in huge colonies and significantly shapes the ecosystem. Archaeological remains in the colonies document that the little auk has been harvested over millennia. Anthropological research discloses how the little auk has a role both as socia…
The history of seabird colonies and the North Water ecosystem: Contributions from palaeoecological and archaeological evidence
The North Water (NOW) polynya is one of the most productive marine areas of the Arctic and an important breeding area for millions of seabirds. There is, however, little information on the dynamics of the polynya or the bird populations over the long term. Here, we used sediment archives from a lake and peat deposits along the Greenland coast of the NOW polynya to track long-term patterns in the dynamics of the seabird populations. Radiocarbon da…
The Frozen Saqqaq Sites of Disko Bay, West Greenland: Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa (2400 – 900 BC)
Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa are the only known archaeological sites of the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition (Early ASTt) in the Eastern Arctic, where the entire suite of organic materials – wood, bone, baleen, skin, etc. – are preserved in permafrozen culture layers. Analyses of a comprehensive artefactual material resulting from excavations at the Saqqaq site of Qeqertasussuk in southernmost Disko Bay and substantial contextual information form the…
A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site: Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900)
Naujan est un site de l’Arctique de l’Est situé sur la côte nord-ouest de la baie d’Hudson, une région occupée au début du XXe siècle par les Aivilirmiut. Participant à la 5e expédition de Thulé (1921-1924) dirigée par Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen fut missionné par le musée national du Danemark pour entreprendre les premières fouilles archéologiques dans l’Arctique canadien. Durant l’été 1922, il répertoria une vingtaine de maisons semi-sou…
Living at a High Arctic Polynya: Inughuit Settlement and Subsistence around the North Water during the Thule Station Period, 1910–53
The settlement and subsistence patterns of the Inughuit of the Avanersuaq (Thule area) are described and analyzed for the years 1910 to 1953, when Knud Rasmussen’s trading station at Dundas was active. Inughuit subsistence was based on the rich biotic resources of the North Water polynya between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, but the analysis shows that trade, primarily with fox furs at the Thule Station, also played a major role in shaping the …
The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic
Arctic genetics comes in from the cold Despite a well-characterized archaeological record, the genetics of the people who inhabit the Arctic have been unexplored. Raghavan et al. sequenced ancient and modern genomes of individuals from the North American Arctic (see the Perspective by Park). Analyses of these genomes indicate that the Arctic was colonized 6000 years ago by a migration separate from the one that gave rise to other Native American …
An archaeological reconstruction of Saqqaq bows, darts, harpoons, and lances
Permafrost-preserved materials from two Saqqaq sites (ca. 3900-2600 BP) in Disko Bay, West Greenland, have provided unique insight into woodworking in the early Arctic Small Tool tradition. Use of driftwood played a decisive role in the complex material culture of Saqqaq society, and analyses of more than 15,000 artifacts, fragments, and wood shavings enable us to reconstruct the woodworking processes and all categories of toolkits. This article …
At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age
A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth-nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas - small patches of permanently open coastal water - provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place was Wal…
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20×, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% hav…
The History of Archaeological Research in North East Greenland: Putting the GeoArk Project into Perspective
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):117–129, 2010 Starting with a brief presentation of the GeoArk Project and its goals, this paper focuses on the archaeological research history of North East Greenland, in particular the area of Sabine Ø and Clavering Ø, in order to view the current project in a wider context. The paper questions the myths about the ‘virgin’ land and it demonstrates how a number of expeditions, activities o…
Late Dorset architecture on Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
Late Dorset dwellings from two sites on Little Cornwallis Island (Nunavut) illustrate the diversity of architectural forms from this period. Ten architectural features are described. They include five tent rings, ascribed to warm season occupations, and five rectangular semi-subterranean houses with axial features, including one exceptionally well-preserved example, ascribed to cold season occupations. Variations in size, number of hearths, and c…
The northernmost ruins of the globe. Eigil Knuth's archaeological investigations in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland
An important part of the heritage of Count Eigil Knuth (1903-1996) is his archaeological archive including contextual information on prehistoric sites gathered during six decades of research in High Arctic Greenland. The finds and observations are a key to the understanding of human life under extreme conditions in a long-term perspective and represent a unique piece of evidence concerning the early cultural history of the Eastern Arctic. Knuth’s…
Prehistory in Permafrost: Investigations at the Saqqaq Site, Qeqertasussuk, Disco Bay, West Greenland
The Knud Rasmussen Memorial Expedition Introduction
Jacobsen, N. Kingo, et.al. Report of activities at Tugtuligssuaq, Melville Bugt, 1978–79. Geografisk Tidsskrift 80: 29–44. Copenhagen, June 1980. A joint cooperative Greenland/Danish expedition to the Melville Bugt area, Tugtuligssuaq/Kap Seddon to throw light on the Eskimos' immigration routes to Greenland seen in relation to climatic fluctuations. Studies of geography, botany, zoology, archaeology, and ethnohistory have been carried out
Late Dorset architecture on Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
Late Dorset dwellings from two sites on Little Cornwallis Island (Nunavut) illustrate the diversity of architectural forms from this period. Ten architectural features are described. They include five tent rings, ascribed to warm season occupations, and five rectangular semi-subterranean houses with axial features, including one exceptionally well-preserved example, ascribed to cold season occupations. Variations in size, number of hearths, and c…
Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources a…
Life around the North Water ecosystem: Natural and social drivers of change over a millennium
The formation of the North Water in Smith Sound about 4500 years ago, as evidenced by the establishment of bird colonies and human presence, also initiated a long-term anthropogenic agent as part of this High Arctic ecosystem. Different epochs have influenced the human occupation in the area: immigration pulses from Canada and Alaska, trade with meteorite iron throughout the Arctic, introduction of new technologies by whalers and explorers, explo…
On the crucial importance of a small bird: The ecosystem services of the little auk (Alle alle) population in Northwest Greenland in a long-term perspective
The little auk is the most numerous seabird in the North Atlantic and its most important breeding area is the eastern shores of the North Water polynya. Here, a population of an estimated 33 million pairs breeds in huge colonies and significantly shapes the ecosystem. Archaeological remains in the colonies document that the little auk has been harvested over millennia. Anthropological research discloses how the little auk has a role both as socia…
Introducing the North Water: Histories of exploration, ice dynamics, living resources, and human settlement in the Thule Region
The North Water is a recurrent polynya in the High Arctic situated between Northwest Greenland and Ellesmere Island of Canada. The North Water makes a dynamic space, where various processes may enhance or obstruct each other, accelerating or halting particular modes of human-animal relations in the region, where life itself depends on the North Water. This will be discussed in four steps. The first step posits the North Water as a perceived oasis…
The history of seabird colonies and the North Water ecosystem: Contributions from palaeoecological and archaeological evidence
The North Water (NOW) polynya is one of the most productive marine areas of the Arctic and an important breeding area for millions of seabirds. There is, however, little information on the dynamics of the polynya or the bird populations over the long term. Here, we used sediment archives from a lake and peat deposits along the Greenland coast of the NOW polynya to track long-term patterns in the dynamics of the seabird populations. Radiocarbon da…
At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age
A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth-nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas - small patches of permanently open coastal water - provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place was Wal…
Archives of human-dog relationships: Genetic and stable isotope analysis of Arctic fur clothing
Among Indigenous populations of the Arctic, domestic dogs (Canislupus familiaris) were social actors aiding in traction and subsistence activities. Less commonly, dogs fulfilled a fur-bearing role in both the North American and Siberian Arctic. Examples of garments featuring dog skins were collected during the 19th-20th centuries and are now curated by the National Museum of Denmark. We sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of macroscopically ident…
An archaeological reconstruction of Saqqaq bows, darts, harpoons, and lances
Permafrost-preserved materials from two Saqqaq sites (ca. 3900-2600 BP) in Disko Bay, West Greenland, have provided unique insight into woodworking in the early Arctic Small Tool tradition. Use of driftwood played a decisive role in the complex material culture of Saqqaq society, and analyses of more than 15,000 artifacts, fragments, and wood shavings enable us to reconstruct the woodworking processes and all categories of toolkits. This article …
Living in an oasis: Rapid transformations, resilience, and resistance in the North Water Area societies and ecosystems
Based on lake sediment data, archaeological findings, and historical records, we describe rapid transformations, resilience and resistance in societies and ecosystems, and their interactions in the past in the North Water area related to changes in climate and historical events. Examples are the formation of the polynya itself and the early arrival of people, ca. 4500 years ago, and later major human immigrations (different societies, cultural en…
The History of Archaeological Research in North East Greenland: Putting the GeoArk Project into Perspective
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):117–129, 2010 Starting with a brief presentation of the GeoArk Project and its goals, this paper focuses on the archaeological research history of North East Greenland, in particular the area of Sabine Ø and Clavering Ø, in order to view the current project in a wider context. The paper questions the myths about the ‘virgin’ land and it demonstrates how a number of expeditions, activities o…
The Knud Rasmussen Memorial Expedition Introduction
Jacobsen, N. Kingo, et.al. Report of activities at Tugtuligssuaq, Melville Bugt, 1978–79. Geografisk Tidsskrift 80: 29–44. Copenhagen, June 1980. A joint cooperative Greenland/Danish expedition to the Melville Bugt area, Tugtuligssuaq/Kap Seddon to throw light on the Eskimos' immigration routes to Greenland seen in relation to climatic fluctuations. Studies of geography, botany, zoology, archaeology, and ethnohistory have been carried out
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience
A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site: Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900)
Naujan est un site de l’Arctique de l’Est situé sur la côte nord-ouest de la baie d’Hudson, une région occupée au début du XXe siècle par les Aivilirmiut. Participant à la 5e expédition de Thulé (1921-1924) dirigée par Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen fut missionné par le musée national du Danemark pour entreprendre les premières fouilles archéologiques dans l’Arctique canadien. Durant l’été 1922, il répertoria une vingtaine de maisons semi-sou…
The Knud Rasmussen Memorial Expedition Introduction
Jacobsen, N. Kingo, et.al. Report of activities at Tugtuligssuaq, Melville Bugt, 1978–79. Geografisk Tidsskrift 80: 29–44. Copenhagen, June 1980. A joint cooperative Greenland/Danish expedition to the Melville Bugt area, Tugtuligssuaq/Kap Seddon to throw light on the Eskimos' immigration routes to Greenland seen in relation to climatic fluctuations. Studies of geography, botany, zoology, archaeology, and ethnohistory have been carried out
Prehistory in Permafrost: Investigations at the Saqqaq Site, Qeqertasussuk, Disco Bay, West Greenland
The northernmost ruins of the globe. Eigil Knuth's archaeological investigations in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland
An important part of the heritage of Count Eigil Knuth (1903-1996) is his archaeological archive including contextual information on prehistoric sites gathered during six decades of research in High Arctic Greenland. The finds and observations are a key to the understanding of human life under extreme conditions in a long-term perspective and represent a unique piece of evidence concerning the early cultural history of the Eastern Arctic. Knuth’s…
Late Dorset architecture on Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
Late Dorset dwellings from two sites on Little Cornwallis Island (Nunavut) illustrate the diversity of architectural forms from this period. Ten architectural features are described. They include five tent rings, ascribed to warm season occupations, and five rectangular semi-subterranean houses with axial features, including one exceptionally well-preserved example, ascribed to cold season occupations. Variations in size, number of hearths, and c…
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20×, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% hav…
The History of Archaeological Research in North East Greenland: Putting the GeoArk Project into Perspective
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):117–129, 2010 Starting with a brief presentation of the GeoArk Project and its goals, this paper focuses on the archaeological research history of North East Greenland, in particular the area of Sabine Ø and Clavering Ø, in order to view the current project in a wider context. The paper questions the myths about the ‘virgin’ land and it demonstrates how a number of expeditions, activities o…
At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age
A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth-nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas - small patches of permanently open coastal water - provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place was Wal…
An archaeological reconstruction of Saqqaq bows, darts, harpoons, and lances
Permafrost-preserved materials from two Saqqaq sites (ca. 3900-2600 BP) in Disko Bay, West Greenland, have provided unique insight into woodworking in the early Arctic Small Tool tradition. Use of driftwood played a decisive role in the complex material culture of Saqqaq society, and analyses of more than 15,000 artifacts, fragments, and wood shavings enable us to reconstruct the woodworking processes and all categories of toolkits. This article …
The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic
Arctic genetics comes in from the cold Despite a well-characterized archaeological record, the genetics of the people who inhabit the Arctic have been unexplored. Raghavan et al. sequenced ancient and modern genomes of individuals from the North American Arctic (see the Perspective by Park). Analyses of these genomes indicate that the Arctic was colonized 6000 years ago by a migration separate from the one that gave rise to other Native American …
Living at a High Arctic Polynya: Inughuit Settlement and Subsistence around the North Water during the Thule Station Period, 1910–53
The settlement and subsistence patterns of the Inughuit of the Avanersuaq (Thule area) are described and analyzed for the years 1910 to 1953, when Knud Rasmussen’s trading station at Dundas was active. Inughuit subsistence was based on the rich biotic resources of the North Water polynya between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, but the analysis shows that trade, primarily with fox furs at the Thule Station, also played a major role in shaping the …
The Frozen Saqqaq Sites of Disko Bay, West Greenland: Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa (2400 – 900 BC)
Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa are the only known archaeological sites of the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition (Early ASTt) in the Eastern Arctic, where the entire suite of organic materials – wood, bone, baleen, skin, etc. – are preserved in permafrozen culture layers. Analyses of a comprehensive artefactual material resulting from excavations at the Saqqaq site of Qeqertasussuk in southernmost Disko Bay and substantial contextual information form the…
A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site: Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900)
Naujan est un site de l’Arctique de l’Est situé sur la côte nord-ouest de la baie d’Hudson, une région occupée au début du XXe siècle par les Aivilirmiut. Participant à la 5e expédition de Thulé (1921-1924) dirigée par Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen fut missionné par le musée national du Danemark pour entreprendre les premières fouilles archéologiques dans l’Arctique canadien. Durant l’été 1922, il répertoria une vingtaine de maisons semi-sou…
Introducing the North Water: Histories of exploration, ice dynamics, living resources, and human settlement in the Thule Region
The North Water is a recurrent polynya in the High Arctic situated between Northwest Greenland and Ellesmere Island of Canada. The North Water makes a dynamic space, where various processes may enhance or obstruct each other, accelerating or halting particular modes of human-animal relations in the region, where life itself depends on the North Water. This will be discussed in four steps. The first step posits the North Water as a perceived oasis…
Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources a…
Life around the North Water ecosystem: Natural and social drivers of change over a millennium
The formation of the North Water in Smith Sound about 4500 years ago, as evidenced by the establishment of bird colonies and human presence, also initiated a long-term anthropogenic agent as part of this High Arctic ecosystem. Different epochs have influenced the human occupation in the area: immigration pulses from Canada and Alaska, trade with meteorite iron throughout the Arctic, introduction of new technologies by whalers and explorers, explo…
Living in an oasis: Rapid transformations, resilience, and resistance in the North Water Area societies and ecosystems
Based on lake sediment data, archaeological findings, and historical records, we describe rapid transformations, resilience and resistance in societies and ecosystems, and their interactions in the past in the North Water area related to changes in climate and historical events. Examples are the formation of the polynya itself and the early arrival of people, ca. 4500 years ago, and later major human immigrations (different societies, cultural en…
On the crucial importance of a small bird: The ecosystem services of the little auk (Alle alle) population in Northwest Greenland in a long-term perspective
The little auk is the most numerous seabird in the North Atlantic and its most important breeding area is the eastern shores of the North Water polynya. Here, a population of an estimated 33 million pairs breeds in huge colonies and significantly shapes the ecosystem. Archaeological remains in the colonies document that the little auk has been harvested over millennia. Anthropological research discloses how the little auk has a role both as socia…
The history of seabird colonies and the North Water ecosystem: Contributions from palaeoecological and archaeological evidence
The North Water (NOW) polynya is one of the most productive marine areas of the Arctic and an important breeding area for millions of seabirds. There is, however, little information on the dynamics of the polynya or the bird populations over the long term. Here, we used sediment archives from a lake and peat deposits along the Greenland coast of the NOW polynya to track long-term patterns in the dynamics of the seabird populations. Radiocarbon da…
Greenland, Archaeology of
Greenland, Archaeology of
Archives of human-dog relationships: Genetic and stable isotope analysis of Arctic fur clothing
Among Indigenous populations of the Arctic, domestic dogs (Canislupus familiaris) were social actors aiding in traction and subsistence activities. Less commonly, dogs fulfilled a fur-bearing role in both the North American and Siberian Arctic. Examples of garments featuring dog skins were collected during the 19th-20th centuries and are now curated by the National Museum of Denmark. We sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of macroscopically ident…
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…
The Initial Peopling of the Circumpolar North
When and why did the originally tropical being, Homo sapiens , enter the circumpolar north? What attracted human societies to this part of the Earth characterized by extreme seasonal variability, long periods of darkness, rough and cold weather, barren tundra, high mountains, ice caps, and vast areas of sea ice? Through analyses of ancient material remains such as stone-built structures, artefacts and bones preserved in cultural layers on dwellin…
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience
Geography (23 works) · Archaeology (22 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Geology (12 works) · Arctic (11 works) · Geology (10 works) · Oceanography (10 works) · Oceanography (8 works) · Physical geography (8 works)