Independence I culture
Cultura Independencia I
- Date
- c. 2400-1900 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Peary Land, Greenland, Denmark
- Credited to
- Eigil Knuth
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A Paleo-Eskimo culture that lived in northern Greenland and the Canadian Arctic between 2400 and 1900 BC, identified by Danish archaeologist Eigil Knuth and named after Independence Fjord, in Peary Land.
What it led to
- Definition of the Arctic Paleo-Eskimo sequence (Independence I and II)
- Boost to postwar Danish Arctic archaeology
- Comparison with the Saqqaq culture of southern Greenland