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Archaeology in Greenland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Therkel Mathiassen*
Affiliation:
National Museum, Copenhagen

Extract

Archaeology in the Arctic has a charm of its own. The surroundings are unusual : the scenery is magnificent, with high, snow-clad mountains and deep fiords ; the sea is filled with icebergs or drift ice—the sun shines day and night ; seals, whales caribou, bears, sea fowl and fish are abundant; and the peo le are the small dark-haired, brown-skinned, broad-faced Eskimos, the kindest and most helpful people in the whole world.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1935

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