Dr. Asta Mønsted

And some of the items that we see, for example, when you think about Greenlandic culture,

Many people think of the igloo, right?

And an igloo that we understand today as this sort of snow house.

Of course, we cannot excavate igloos today because they melt, but we do find snow knives.

And we find them from that gate in Greenland at the northwest part of Greenland.

But we also find them all the way down to Disco Bay.

So they have been using these snow knives and probably therefore also made igloos.

But an igloo in itself actually comes from the Greenlandic word illu.

And illu simply means house.

So when we think about the turf houses and the stone houses that we see also later on, all the way up until 1930, some places in Greenland, these turf and stone houses should actually also be called Ildus.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah.

So at Ruin Island, we

find some of the earliest remains from the Tula culture, the Inuit culture.

And they date all the way back to 1150 AD.

So that's some of the earliest sites that we have.

And I think it's only six houses on that ruin.

on that island, sorry.

And then later on, we also see much larger sites.

For example, when you go to Nuslit, which is close to today's Bitufik space base, there we have a site with around