Dr. Asta Mønsted

We don't see connections genealogically between the different cultures.

And when we excavate at the sort of gate into Greenland, which is considered to be Northwest part of Greenland, where I think it's only 40 kilometers to Canada.

So you can walk that when there is ice.

When we excavate in that area, we see remnants of even

cultures or waves in between those three that I just mentioned, but they never really went any further than just into the land and then

for whatever reason, they turn back into Canada.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We see a difference from the Dorset culture and Tula culture.

The Dorset and also the Saqqaq, we don't find remains of sledges or them having dogs, for example, or kayaks.

but we see that with the Tula culture.

We see remains of them having dog straps and sledges, and they also have kayaks and the big boat for multiple people, which is called the umiak.

Well, we often see historic paintings or depictions of

mainly women sitting inside those umiaks and then the men would be sitting in the small kayaks and the women would be rowing it with all their gear, like their skins for their tents and the kids and the dogs.

So the women were really tough.

Yeah.

Yeah, they are.

We see the first Thule people arriving at that gate, as we have seen before.

And then they spread across the country.