- The
Saqqaq culture (named
after the
Saqqaq settlement, the site of many
archaeological finds) was a Paleo-Eskimo
culture in
southern Greenland. Up to this...
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Saqqaq (old spelling: Sarqaq) is a
settlement in the
Avannaata muni****lity in
western Greenland.
Founded in 1755 as Solsiden,
Saqqaq had 132 inhabitants...
- site has been
inhabited for the last 4,500 years,
first by
peoples of the
Saqqaq culture, then
Dorset culture, and then the
Thule people,
whose Inuit descendants...
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Saqqaq Heliport (ICAO: BGSQ) is a
heliport in
Saqqaq, a
village on the
Nuussuaq Peninsula in the
Avannaata muni****lity in
western Greenland. The heliport...
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disappearing around 1500 CE. Paleo-Eskimo
groups included the Pre-Dorset; the
Saqqaq culture of
Greenland (2500–800 BCE); the
Independence I and Independence...
- understood. They may have
developed from the
previous cultures of Pre-Dorset,
Saqqaq or (less likely)
Independence I.
There are, however,
problems with this...
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years ago.
While Saqqaq-era
sites are
generally the most
numerous of all the
prehistoric sites in Greenland,
around Qaqortoq the
Saqqaq presence is less...
- in
Peary Land. The
Independence I
people lived at the same time as the
Saqqaq culture of
southern Greenland.
Independence I
culture was
followed by Independence...
-
uncertain when the
Inuit first started venturing into
Disko Bay, but the
Saqqaq were
present there between 2400 and 900 BC.
Disko Bay has been an important...
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north Greenland as the
Independence I
culture and
south Greenland as the
Saqqaq culture. The
Early Dorset replaced these early Greenlanders around 700 BCE...
