Dr. Asta Mønsted

I think it's at least 30 houses and dwellings on that site.

And that is because it's close to really good hunting grounds.

So in Greenland, we have winter sites from the Thule culture, approximately about 2,000

500 sites.

And on those sites that have been registered, sometimes we have one or two winter houses, but other times we have up to around 30 houses on one site.

And then we also need to remember that a house could be reused.

So when we excavate the houses, sometimes we find two or seven layers

of people who had inhabited that house.

They do.

They are amazing and well-structured for the environment that they were built in.

And the winter houses was only one type of house.

So in Greenland, because it's such a large area and also the seasons vary a lot, the winter house is only one dwelling.

in the summertime, people would be staying in summer tents.

That makes sense.

That was much more mobile.

And in between those two sort of extreme climates or seasons, you would stay at something that is called a qamma.

So it is a construction that is a sort of hybrid between the summer tent and the winter house.

So the winter house is built from the ground up, or actually it's

dug around 40, 50 centimeters into the turf layer.

And then you build your walls up from stones and turf that you cut in the area.