HUNTING TOOLS
The harpoon tips have developed through time and different materials have been used.
For more than 3,000 years sea mammals have been caught with harpoons.
Harpooning from the edge of the ice, Iterlassuaq near Thule, 1947.
In the ice floe on page 8 you see weapon tips made of the stone killiaq. They were used by the Dorset culture. When did they settle at the mouth of the Icefjord? And for how long?
What materials are the harpoon heads in the ice floe made of?
Draw a food web of the animals you can meet and catch in the Disko Bay. Write the names of the animals here.
The animals in the food web:
The harpoon tips have developed through time and different materials have been used.
For more than 3,000 years sea mammals have been caught with harpoons.
Harpooning from the edge of the ice, Iterlassuaq near Thule, 1947.
In the ice floe on page 8 you see weapon tips made of the stone killiaq. They were used by the Dorset culture. When did they settle at the mouth of the Icefjord? And for how long?
What materials are the harpoon heads in the ice floe made of?
Draw a food web of the animals you can meet and catch in the Disko Bay. Write the names of the animals here.
The animals in the food web:
