The first people to set foot in Qooqqut were from the Saqqaq culture, around 4,500 years ago. They likely only stayed during the summer—if they came at all—since reindeer needed to be present for the area to be worth visiting.
No artifacts from this period have been found in Qooqqut, but Itinnera, located about 30 km away, has been identified as an important site for the Saqqaq people.
The Saqqaq people had an early form of kayak and kept dogs as domestic animals, though not as sled dogs. Remarkably, they were the only people to survive in Greenland for no less than 1,600 years—a record that has yet to be beaten (but we’re working on it!).
They cooked their food by dropping hot stones into skin bags filled with water and meat. They also used oil lamps and even built their homes with stone-tiled floors.
The Saqqaq people either migrated, died out, or mixed with the Dorset I culture between 2,900 and 2,600 years ago.
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