Assembling Arctic Lifeways: a relational approach to lithic assemblages from the Greenlandic Dorset period

Abstract

A big thank you also goes to Arctic Centre colleagues Maarten Loonen, Annette Scheepstra, Frits Steenhuisen, and Sean Desjardins.xiv Acknowledgements Additional thanks to Sean for his generosity and patience through years of being barraged with impromptu queries on anything related to eastern Arctic archaeology. Whereas the Arctic Centre has been my primary base of operations, the Ethnographic Collection and Archives at the National Museum of Denmark holds a special significance as a second home of sorts for me through these years. My research stays and visits here have been rewarding and enjoyable experiences, to which I owe the colleagues working there. My sincere gratitude therefore goes to Martin Appelt, Ulla Ødegaard, Peter Andreas Toft, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Ditlev Mahler, and the other staff members that have been present there during my stays. My thanks also go to Mikkel Sørensen and Jens Fog Jensen, who graciously shared their deep knowledge and experience in the study of lithic technology and the Greenlandic Dorset period with me. Your support was immensely helpful, especially during the early stages of my analyses in Copenhagen. During my years of PhD research, I have also had the additional privilege of participating in archaeological fieldwork both in Greenland and Norway. A big thank you to my friend and fellow PhD candidate Asta Mønsted who brought me along to assist her in the surveying of Thule Inuit sites near Ilimanaq in Qeqertarsuup Tunua during the summer of 2019. This gave me my first and memorable experience of archaeological fieldwork in Greenland. Much gratitude goes to Charlotte Damm and Marianne Skandfer, who kindly invited me to participate during the workshops and fieldwork of the Stone Age Demographics research project