Dr. Asta Mønsted

that in the Greenlandic context, we sometimes see everyday objects being used for ritual activities.

So, of course, when we excavate, let's say we excavate a house, we find a fork or a knife or

lying on the ground.

And you think, oh, this is just for cooking, you know.

And we cannot really say, was it also used for ritual activity?

And we cannot take a sample from that knife.

It's not going to tell us, but it just gives a different or a new way of interpreting some of these objects that we encounter.

Well, Greenland is more or less one of the last places on Earth to be inhabited by humans.

So the first people reaching Greenland, that happened 4,500 years ago.

Yeah.

So it's not that long history compared to other parts of this earth, but that is the long history we have here in Greenland.

Yeah.

It's from Canada.

Yeah.

So the first people entering Greenland, they came all the way from Alaska or Southeast Siberia across Alaska and then crossed Canada and into Greenland.

The oldest culture is archaeologically called the Sakka culture.

And then we have the Dorset culture, which is sort of in between.

And then we have what is archaeologically called the Thule culture, also called the Inuit culture, which are the ancestors of modern day Greenlanders.

Yeah, the tool, they arrive the latest.

So the first waves...