Archaeological Sites in Greenland
City/town/settlement in Greenland (7)
Comer's Midden
Comer's Midden was a 1916 archaeological excavation site at Uummannaq (Dundas), north of Mt. Dundas in North Star Bay, northern Greenland. It is the find after which the Thule…
Deltaterrasserne
Deltaterrasserne (literally "Delta Terraces") is a pre-Inuit archaeological site near the head of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord on the Peary Land peninsula in northern Greenland,…
Independence Fjord
A large fjord in eastern Peary Land, northern Greenland, about 200 km long, that gave its name to two Paleo-Eskimo cultures. In 1948, Danish explorer Eigil Knuth discovered the…
Nipisat Island
A small uninhabited island in central-western Greenland, 15 km south of Sisimiut, containing a major Saqqaq culture archaeological site representing the earliest documented human…
Pisissarfik
Pisissarfik is a 1,220-metre mountain in the Sermersooq municipality, West Greenland, near the settlement of Kapisillit on a branch of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, about 150 km…
Qilakitsoq
Qilakitsoq (Greenlandic for 'that which has very little sky') is an archaeological site on Greenland's Nuussuaq Peninsula near Uummannaq, famous for the 1972 discovery of eight…
Qoornoq
Qoornoq is an uninhabited fishing village in Sermersooq municipality, southwestern Greenland. Archaeological evidence shows the area was inhabited by Saqqaq culture (Paleo-Eskimo)…
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