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The culture of Greenland has much in common with Greenlandic Inuit tradition, as the majority of people are descended from Inuit. Many people still go ice fishing and there are annual dog-sled races in which everyone with a team participates. However, Greenland has now become somewhat of a tourist attraction.
The first people arrived in Greenland from the Canadian island of Ellesmere, around 2500 to 2000 BCE, from where they colonized north Greenland as the Independence I culture and south Greenland as the Saqqaq culture. [15] The Early Dorset replaced these early Greenlanders around 700 BCE, and themselves lived on the island until c. 1 CE. [15]
On the western end of the site, Nipisat Island contains exceptionally well-preserved artifacts from the Saqqaq culture, which lived in Greenland between 2500 and 800 BCE. From 1989 to 1994, an excavation of the archeological site on the island revealed over 70,000 bone fragments from game animals and 1,000 artifacts from the Saqqaq culture. [5]
Greenland is the world's largest island and an autonomous Danish dependent territory with self-government and its own parliament. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has ...
Hunting place of the Saqqaq culture on Disko Bay, Greenland, photo by Jan Kronsell. In the western and southern parts of the eastern coast of Greenland, the Saqqaq culture developed around 2300 BCE and lasted 1500 years. The centre of their settlements was Disko Bay near the place Saqqaq, which lent its name to the culture. The people extended ...
LGBTQ culture in Greenland (1 C, 1 P) Libraries in Greenland (1 P) M. Mass media in Greenland (5 C, 1 P) Municipal coats of arms in Greenland (2 P) N.
The comparison found that the rate of glacial retreat in Greenland during the 21st century has been twice as fast as the retreat in the 20th century.
From 2400 BC to 1300 BC, the Independence I culture existed in northern Greenland. It was a part of the Arctic small-tool tradition. [40] [41] [42] Towns, including Deltaterrasserne, appeared. About 800 BC, the Saqqaq culture disappeared and the Early Dorset culture emerged in western Greenland and the Independence II culture in northern ...