Tristan Hughes

Yeah, the baleen, as you mentioned, the fishing tackle and all of that.

Well, I mean, as you mentioned, you know, so much food from one whale.

And I can imagine there must have been, like, mythologically stories of great heroes, right, taking down the whale and doing that exact thing, going on the whale and, you know...

spearing it.

You can imagine so many tales being told around the fires in these settlements about these great heroes of old who accomplished this and brought in a great wail for their community, can't you, with that scene that you've just pictured for us?

It's amazing.

It's like, you know, yes, as you say, like the Tula Inuit version of Heracles tackling the great sea beast or land beast as well.

I mean, do we hear of, let's say, are there...

interactions is perhaps a neutral word, but is there great combats against the big beast of the land up there, polar bears?

Well, hang on, but you have to be eaten by a polar bear and survive it.

I don't think that works.

Astor, I could ask so many more questions about so many different things.

I think I'll skip over asking more about the shamans, but they sound a bit kind of like the druids, or maybe not druids, but got a link to nature, but who can talk with the supernatural and have a lot of, we can presume, back even centuries and centuries ago when the two linears arrived, they hold a big place in societies.

And that's kind of what we can imagine from them.

And going quickly also onto art, you mentioned earlier like miniature polar bear figurines that have been discovered.

Is most of the art that you find in these settlements, is it animalistic?

Is it always depicting animals or what types of art should we be thinking of?

Okay.

Yeah.

We've got to talk about this then.