Independence Fjord Nordgronland Greenland

Inuit of the Independence I culture build dwellings with elliptical floor plans north of Independence Fjord, in southern Peary Land.

These people use tools made from rocks and bones, and subsist from hunting wildlife like musk oxen and arctic hares.

Bones of musk oxen hunted down in Peary Land show that the area was inhabited at 2000 BCE.

The oldest discoveries are dated at 2400 BCE.

Discoveries of the time starting around 1800 BCE until 1300 BCE are mostly made south of Independence Fjord.

It is unknown whether the Independence I culture vanished or the people moved south.

The Independence II culture, a Paleo-Eskimo culture that flourishes in northern and northeastern Greenland from 700 BCE to 80 BCE, north and south of the Independence Fjord, arises in the same region as the Independence I culture, which had become extinct six centuries earlier.