Sermermiut

Sermermiut is a former Inuit settlement on Disko Bay in Greenland, now preserved as an archaeological site within the Ilulissat Icefjord World Heritage Site. Twentieth-century excavations reconstructed a long pre-colonial history there, finding traces of occupation by the Saqqaq, Early Dorset, and Thule cultures. A 1983 excavation dated the beginning of the Early Dorset presence to around 600–200 BCE. The site remained inhabited into the historical period until its abandonment in 1850, when the last resident moved to nearby Jacobshavn, now Ilulissat. Its significance lies in this layered record of human settlement beside one of Greenland’s most famous icefjord landscapes.

Avannaata · Greenland