Abstract

This paper will present some data on the occurrence of Late Pre-Dorset/Early Dorset in North and Northeast Greenland as elucidated by fieldwork during recent years. It has been one of several questions whether the data reveal one or several migrations and/or cultural meetings between a Late Pre-Dorset group and an Early Dorset group. The material does not yet answer such questions, although there may be some indications that two or more groups are responsible for the roughly contemporaneous material found in this High Arctic area. The paper will present spatial data on this period (the Independence II period) and discuss some of the traits which indicate the presence of different traditions.