Kujataa stretches from Nunap Isua in the south to Nunarsuit Island, roughly 250 kilometers to the north.

[2] The world heritage site includes 5 components, all located within this region: The earliest known archeological remains from Kujataa date from the 3rd millennium BC, beginning with the Arctic small tool tradition and continuing with the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures, before vanishing from southern Greenland.

[2] In the 10th century, the Norse people began to arrive in southern Greenland, led by Erik the Red.

[2] However, the Norse farming practices on Greenland differed from those elsewhere with a greater emphasis on hunting than cereal production (possibly due to the abundance of walruses and seals in the region) and raising goats rather than sheep.

[2] By the 15th century, the Norse villages in Kujataa had disappeared, and there is little sign of agriculture in Greenland for the next few centuries, until the 1780s, when an Inuk woman, Tuperna, and her Norwegian husband, Anders Olsen, began a farm at the former medieval bishop's residence at Igaliku.