- 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...
-
Saqqaq (old spelling: Sarqaq) is a
settlement in the
Avannaata muni****lity in
western Greenland.
Founded in 1755 as Solsiden,
Saqqaq had 132 inhabitants...
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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...
-
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...
- was
inhabited by the
Saqqaq culture. Most
finds of
remains from that
period have been
around Disko Bay,
including the site of
Saqqaq, for
which the culture...
- 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...
- well do****ented. A 1953 dig
identified that
Sermermiut had been used by
Saqqaq,
Early Dorset and
Thule cultures.
Another dig in 1983
dated the
start of...
