Archaeology of Greenland

Paleo-Eskimo culture (500 BCE–1500 CE) that preceded the Inuit in the Arctic of North America

Paleo-Eskimo culture in Greenland existing from around 2500 BCE until about 800 BCE

The Paleo-Eskimo (meaning 'old Eskimos'), also known as Paleo-Inuit, were the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region from Chukotka (e.g., Chertov Ovrag) in present-day Russia across North America to Greenland before the arrival of the modern Inuit and related cultures (formerly called Eskimo). The first known Paleo-Eskimo cultures developed by 3900 to 3600 BCE, but were gradually displaced in most of the region, with the last one, the Dorset culture, disappearing around 1500 CE.

Paleo-Eskimo culture that flourished in northeastern Greenland (700 BCE to 80 BCE), north and south of the Independence Fjord

Paleo-Eskimo culture of peoples who lived in northern Greenland from 2,400 to 1,000 B.C

Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer (1903-1996)

early Norse sun compass discovered in Greenland