First people and muskox hunting in northernmost Greenland

• Published in: Acta Borealia
• Main Authors: Jensen, Jens Fog, Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Greenland; Intra-site analysis; marrow fracturing; muskox; Paleo-Inuit; settlement patterns; Arctic; Jørgen Brønlund Fjord; Peary; Peary Land; Wandel; Wandel Dal; Acta Borealia; inuit
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/first-people-and-muskox-hunting-in-northernmost-greenland(be000219-396d-4cfd-8b71-9d3dd906743d).html; https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2022.2061763

Peary Land, and in particular the area of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord and Wandel Dal, is the only place in Greenland where prehistoric muskox hunting sites are plentiful and investigated, and it gives a unique insight into prehistoric muskox hunting. In the mid-1900s, Eigil Knuth discovered the 4400 years...