Activating Arctic Heritage

This anthology presents the findings of a comprehensive interdisciplinary research project, Activating Arctic Heritage, which examines cultural heritage across two distinct Greenlandic landscapes recently inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: Kujataa in South Greenland and Aasivissuit–Nipisat at the Arctic Circle. Jointly organised by the national museums of Denmark and Greenland and supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, Activating Arctic Heritage (2019–2024) has drawn on the international attention and exceptional research opportunities generated by these UNESCO designations. For the first time, the project brings together a series of new discoveries and insights into Inuit and Norse archaeology and history, the interactions between these societies and their continually changing environments, and the protection and preservation of sites. The anthology comprises chapters developed from papers on Greenland’s UNESCO sites and other protected northern cultural landscapes presented at the international conference Research on Cultural Heritage Landscapes in the Circumpolar North, held in 2023 at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen.