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Welcome to the Inglefield Land Archaeological Project

In 2003, Genevieve LeMoine of The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Christyann Darwent of the University of California-Davis, in collaboration with Hans Lange of the Greenland National Museum in Nuuk, and David Qaavigaq of the Thule Museum in Qaanaaq, initiated the Inglefield Land Archaeology Project: Culture Contact and Human Ecology at the Entrance to Greenland (ILAP) with funding provided by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. The long-term goals of the project are to explore the inter-related effects of a variety of significant events in the last two centuries, from the end of the Little Ice Age to contact with Europeans and Inuit migrants from Baffin Island, on Inughuit culture. To this end, the project has now completed two field seasons devoted archaeological survey of the Inglefield Land region and one season of excavations at the historically renown site of Iita (Etah).