Dr. Asta Mønsted

But it's just to say that there are ways of interpreting this and understanding it.

We can find some of the bones, for example, on the mittens that were placed right outside of the houses.

So in those mittens, we can find some of the bones after what meals they have had.

So we do find musk ox and reindeer, seal, a lot of seal, different types of birds, also fish bones, if they were preserved, also sometimes fish bones.

foxes and hares and walrus and narwhal and different parts of whales yes different types of of animals that would also tell us what part of the season did they occupy this house for example

One time we were excavating and there was 10 meters away from us where we were excavating.

There was a bone from the neck, a neck bone from a whale.

Yeah.

A spine bone.

It was lying very close to.

And we were excavating.

This was in 2015.

And we were excavating the midden of an old rassi.

So this assembly house dated back to the 1300s.

And it was fun for us to think maybe they hunted that whale because of course whales are really difficult to date because of the marine effect.

But we were excavating harpoon heads mainly for walrus.

And also we excavated a lot of

tusks from the narwhal as well but one of my colleagues he managed to find this huge harpoon head

measuring around 20 centimeters.

That's a big one.