Dr. Asta Mønsted

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Yes, it does.

Yeah.

I mean, I actually first want to go a little bit back to what you said just before, why it's important to understand that there is a long history.

Because I think Greenland has often been sort of talked about today as if it was empty or if it was remote or just newly discovered, right?

But in reality, it has been inhabited for thousands of years, hundreds of years.

by people with deep knowledge of the land, the ice, the animals, and also the climate.

So understanding that long history helps sort of counter the idea that Greenland is just a strategic space or a resource frontier.

It is a homeland for people.

And they know that land and they know it with their memory and they have a deep culture of that space.

And yes, to answer your first real question, surprisingly, actually, we do have a lot of archaeological remains to uncover in Greenland.

We have many sites along the coast.

So if you look up Greenland on a map, you will see a big ice sheet in the middle.

And of course, people have never lived there until we go back to the dinosaurs.

But people have always lived along the coast of Greenland.

And all the archaeological sites that we have are along the coast of all of Greenland, actually.

And the archaeological remains that we have, we find settlements with house remains, dwellings.

We find caches, so people's sort of freezers in the landscapes.

Cairns, I can't remember.

Cairns, burial mounds kind of thing.