Independence II culture
Cultura Independencia II
- Date
- c. 1950 · confidence low
- Place
- Peary Land, Greenland, Denmark
- Credited to
- Eigil Knuth
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A Paleo-Eskimo culture that inhabited the far north of Greenland around 700-80 BC, identified by Danish archaeologist Eigil Knuth in Peary Land.
What it led to
- documented human adaptation to one of the most extreme Arctic environments
- extended the Paleo-Eskimo cultural sequence of northern Greenland alongside Independence I
- provided data on prehistoric Arctic settlement routes