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A Paleo-Eskimo Culture in West Greenland*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Jorgen Meldgaard
Jorgen Meldgaard*
Affiliation:
National Museum, Copenhagen
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During a trip to greenland in the summer of 1948 Hans Mosegaard, a well known amateur archaeologist, visited Sarqaq in the Ritenbenk District of the northern part of Disko Bay. Directly west of the present settlement near the low cliff along the beach Mosegaard located remnants of an old midden layer, of which he excavated a surface area of 12 sq. m. with a culture stratum reaching a depth of 30 cm. The find consists of 182 artifacts; stone refuse is plentiful, but only a few bones, none worked, were preserved. No house ruins occur in connection with the culture layer, and Mosegaard was unable to establish any regular arrangement of the many stones scattered at the area.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , January 1952 , pp. 222 - 230
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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Footnotes

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I am indebted to Dr. Helge Larsen, for having read this paper in typescript, and for valuable criticism and advice.

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