Sermermiut: icefjord settlement and changing preservation
Reviewed community and place names are preserved where supported; no otherwise unknown ancient self-designation is invented.
GEUS connects settlement history with icefjord resources rather than an empty frozen landscape. The museum's research account explains how Sermermiut excavations helped refine Saqqaq terminology; that is a scholarly history, not a racial taxonomy.
Households, seasonal work, landscapes, and the evidence
Coastal, inland, river, island, and ice connections
Aasiaat is a modern orientation for this context, not an ancient capital designation or boundary. Successive households used an icefjord landscape; accumulated settlement traces do not prove one unchanged government or population.
Political organization and community scale
Successive households used an icefjord landscape; accumulated settlement traces do not prove one unchanged government or population. Saqqaq, Dorset and Thule labels require local context; later winter houses must not all be backdated into the main period.
Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Living Kalaallit knowledge and stewardship are not substitutes for, or products of, an artifact-based membership test. Later research, colonial and stewardship events are dated separately from the principal archaeological contexts.
Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.
Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.
Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.
简洁、来源化的时间表
这些里程碑是指向点,而不是完整的历史.
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Later settlement
Thule-associated and later household contexts require separate chronological assessment.
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Archaeological classification
The museum account records excavation central to the scholarly definition of Saqqaq material.
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Erosion and permafrost
NKA investigated current conservation problems; modern damage does not date the original deposits.
Food, craft, labor, belief, and collective work
本简介中命名的语言
- Living Kalaallit knowledge and stewardship are not substitutes for, or products of, an artifact-based membership test.
语言家庭: Language, material classification, political allegiance, residence and living identity are distinct; this record does not classify every ancient speaker.
Research focus: Settlement layers, material comparison, geological context and erosion monitoring.
Successive households used an icefjord landscape; accumulated settlement traces do not prove one unchanged government or population.
Saqqaq, Dorset and Thule labels require local context; later winter houses must not all be backdated into the main period.
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Prefer Indigenous governments, museums, heritage organizations, accountable field projects and public heritage institutions. Give source title, author or organization, date and stable link. Brief summaries are DNAGENICS AI-assisted interpretations, not author or community endorsement, reproduction permission or community review.
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C1
Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada Management Plan, 2023
Inuit and Parks Canada; park planning team · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · 2023
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C2
Nunalleq Digital Museum
Qanirtuuq Inc., Quinhagak community and collaborating researchers · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20
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C3
Saoyú and Ɂehdacho Stories: introduction and transmission history
Délı̨nę Elders and Parks Canada; introduction to published oral histories · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20
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C4
The Frozen Saqqaq Sites of Disko Bay, West Greenland: Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa (2400–900 BC)
Bjarne Grønnow; Museum Tusculanum Press · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · 2017
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C5
Contribution of 14C wiggle-matching to dendroarchaeology of coastal Birnirk and Thule sites in northern Alaska
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement; original research account · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · 2023-11-30
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C6
Taphonomy of Beringian Karstic Sites: A Case Study from Bluefish Cave III, Yukon, Canada
Original taphonomic research; PaleoAmerica · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · 2026-07-28 online publication
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C7
Toward an archaeology of late prehistoric Eskimo bands in coastal northwest Alaska
Roger K. Harritt; Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · 2013
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C8
Tr’ochëk
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Government · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20
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C9
Aasivissuit – Nipisat: UNESCO verdensarvsområde
Qeqqata Kommunia · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20
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S1
The land of the ‘icefjord people’
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20
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S2
Saqqaq: chronology, material evidence and research history
National Museum of Denmark; Greenland research programme · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20
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S3
Investigation of permafrost degradation and coastal erosion at Sermermiut, 2024
Christina Bonsell, Hans Harmsen and Mikkel Myrup; Greenland National Museum and Archives, Technical Report 202501_1 · Original research, Indigenous institutional account or heritage record; brief attributed paraphrase · 2025-08
Editorial review: October 20, 2026