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Saqqaq

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /sɑːkək/

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noun

Meaning 1

The Paleo-Eskimo people who inhabited west-central Greenland circa 2500–800BC and who formed the Saqqaq culture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only

Examples

  • 2010, February 10th: Brian Handwerk, “Face of Ancient Human Drawn From Hair’s DNA: Genome paints picture of man from extinct Greenland culture”, for National Geographic News The Saqqaq have long presented a puzzle to scientists, according to study co-author Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

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History

Etymology

From the Greenlandic Saqqaq, a settlement in the Avannaata municipality of western Greenland, near which archaeological excavations discovered remains of the eponymous Saqqaq culture.