Excavation Phases
- 1916
With his ship ice-bound, Comer made use of his time through an archaeological excavation just south of Arctic Station of Thule unearthing, amongst other things, a kitchen-midden made by paleo-Eskimos. The site is named in honor of Comer and the midden that he found.
- 1920s
Anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen accompanied Rasmussen's 5th Thule Expedition (1921—1924) that included a return to the Thule site. In Mathiasen's monumental works of the 1920s and 1930s, he described Comer's Midden as "the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland".
- 1930s and 1940s
The site was excavated by Erik Holtved in 1935 to 1937, and again in 1946 to 1947.
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