Tristan Hughes

Well, let's talk about that quickly as well because we did an episode last year on the Siberian ice mummies and they did recent research with the skin surviving on those mummies high up in the Altai Mountains.

They were able to figure out how they were tattooed and actually the method they probably used to get the pictures on their skin.

So do we know a lot then?

You used that example from your hometown just then.

Do we have quite a rich corpus of understanding about how mummies

the Tula Inuit, how they buried their dead, how they looked after their deceased relatives?

I like that mention of the dog at the end.

Once again, reminding you that they also had pets with them as well for their day-to-day lives and how similar they are to us today.

I also love this idea maybe, as you say, of course, as you mentioned, the settlements have been along the coast, human habitation is along the coast as it is today.

You know, someone from one of those communities seeing the snowy wilderness, like the center of Greenland, thinking like, I'd like to be buried up there in the wildlands or myths of people who went into the snowy wastelands and did great deeds.

It's an amazing landscape.

to think about how they survived and how they viewed, as you've highlighted, their worldview of the natural world around them.

I wish I could ask so many more questions.

We may well have to get you back on in the future for another one.

But is there any message that you would like to... Closing remarks for this episode that you'd like to leave us with, with the story of prehistoric Greenland?

yeah absolutely and it's been wonderful to shine a light on the prehistoric story of greenland the amazing archaeological sites and artifacts that survive entwined with mythology what a rich area of the world to learn more about its distant past in the years to head it must be so exciting for you and everyone else tell us finally about yourself you're currently in copenhagen and you're doing your own particular work on this at the moment yes i am a prehistoric archaeologist and uh

Very cool.

Bring back the winter houses.

Asta, it just goes for me to say, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show.

Well, there you go.