Dr. Asta Mønsted

Yeah, I always pronounce it wrong, sorry.

And then all of this has mainly been preserved because of permafrost preserving many items that would usually decay.

So we have many organic materials such as wooden pieces, for example.

You don't find a lot of wood, but what we have might sometimes have been preserved.

We have...

bone pieces, sometimes baleen, tusks, antler, sometimes even fur and hair can be preserved in those icy frozen layers.

So excavating an archaeological site can be really interesting and really intriguing because it is sort of this freezer that have just frozen things in time.

And then, of course, also in layers.

So we can see this is not only one incidence, but also there is a deep history at various sites, for example.

And then, of course, we also have stone tools.

But the more exotic stuff as organic materials, we also find that interesting.

Yeah.

Oh, and I forgot textiles.

I mean, oftentimes we had skin clothing, but we also find fragments of textiles from the Norsemen, for example.

Is that where they should be?

No, it's the whale with this sifting.

It's not their teeth.

So it's called baleen.

Yeah.

And I've forgotten the name of that specific whale right now.