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 municipality 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...

disappearing around 1500 CE. Paleo-Eskimo groups included the Pre-Dorset; the Saqqaq culture of Greenland (2500–800 BCE); the Independence I and Independence...

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...

understood. They may have developed from the previous cultures of Pre-Dorset, Saqqaq or (less likely) Independence I. There are, however, problems with this...

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...

Saqqaq Heliport (ICAO: BGSQ) is a heliport in Saqqaq, a village on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. The heliport...

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...

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...

north Greenland as the Independence I culture and south Greenland as the Saqqaq culture. The Early Dorset replaced these early Greenlanders around 700 BCE...

well documented. A 1953 dig identified that Sermermiut had been used by Saqqaq, Early Dorset and Thule cultures. Another dig in 1983 dated the start of...

Ilulissat (Jakobshavn) Ilimanaq (Claushavn) Oqaatsut (Rodebay) Qeqertaq (Øen) Saqqaq (Solsiden) Qaanaaq (Thule) Qeqertat Savissivik Siorapaluk Uummannaq (Omenak)...

some centuries later. Saqqaq culture 2400 – 900 BCE In the western and southern parts of the eastern coast of Greenland, the Saqqaq culture developed around...

last archaeological evidence of Independence I is from 1730 BC. 2400 BC: Saqqaq people enter Greenland from Siberia and live there until 400 BC. 2500 BC:...

was first occupied by the ancient, pre-Inuit, Paleo-Eskimo people of the Saqqaq culture as far back as 2200 BC when they lived in the area around the now...

Early Paleo-Eskimo groups included the Pre-Dorset (c. 3200–850 BC); the Saqqaq culture of Greenland (2500–800 BC); the Independence I and Independence...

identified at the Smith Sound region: Independence I, Independence I / Saqqaq, Pre-Dorset, Saqqaq, early Dorset, and late Dorset.: 49  They chiefly hunted muskoxen:...

Destinations Air Greenland Aasiaat, Ilimanaq, Nuuk, Qaanaaq, Qaarsut, Qeqertaq, Saqqaq, Sisimiut, Upernavik Seasonal: Qasigiannguit, Qeqertarsuaq Icelandair Seasonal:...

Thule people in the 1200s. The languages that were spoken by the earlier Saqqaq and Dorset cultures in Greenland are unknown. The first descriptions of...

culture in Arctic Canada, Independence I culture in the High Arctic and Saqqaq culture in southern Greenland. The ASTt was followed by the Norton tradition...

Kujalleq 36 136 Ukkusissat — Avannaata 37 153 Aappilattoq — Avannaata 38 155 Saqqaq Solsiden Avannaata 39 139 Kangersuatsiaq Prøven Avannaata 40 153 Narsarsuaq...

been adopted by the Inuit, as it was already known to the Eskimos of the Saqqaq culture (2400–900 BC). The simple roof structure was made of driftwood (in...

mid-Holocene landslide-generated tsunamis recorded in lake sediments from Saqqaq, West Greenland". copernicus.org. European Geosciences Union. doi:10...

Northernmost settlement in Finland and European Union Saqqaq Greenland (Danish Realm) 70°00' N 160 yes yes Settlement - site name for the Saqqaq culture...

Eskimology Inuit religion Kudlik Maupuk Nanook of the North, 1922 documentary Saqqaq culture Houghton Mifflin Company (2005). Houghton Mifflin Company (ed.)...

Bangladesh Avannaata, Ilimanaq, Ilulissat, Oqaatsut, Qaanaaq, Qeqertaq, Saqqaq, Siorapaluk, Uummannaq, Kujalleq, Narsaq, Narsarsuaq, Qaqortoq, Qassiarsuk...

Greenland AIP for BGST – Saattut Heliport from Naviair Greenland AIP for BGSQ – Saqqaq Heliport from Naviair Greenland AIP for BGSV – Savissivik Heliport from...

Middle Holocene landslide-generated tsunamis recorded in lake sediments from Saqqaq, West Greenland". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 24 (3): 757–772...

tsunami created a wave that destroyed boats at the closest populated village, Saqqaq, on the southwestern coast of the Nuussuaq Peninsula 40 kilometres (25 mi)...