The site has a long history of habitation.
The area around Nuuk was first occupied by the ancient pre-Inuit, Paleo-Eskimo
people of the Saqqaq culture as far back as 2200 BC when they lived in the area
around the now abandoned settlement of Qoornoq. For a long time it was occupied
by the Dorset culture around the former settlement of Kangeq but they
disappeared from the Nuuk district before AD 1000. The Nuuk area was later
inhabited by Viking explorers in the 10th century, and shortly thereafter by
Inuit peoples. Inuit and Norsemen both lived with little interaction in this
area from about 1000
