The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland
ABSTRACT Fourteen Thule Culture Inuit mummies are described here, including remarks on the cultural and archaeological setting of the Thule people. The mummy finds pertain to two mummy caches: six mummies found near Nuuk, at the site Pissisarfik, and eight mummies from Qilakitsoq. The latter find is...
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crwiley:10.1002/ar.23131 2024-06-02T08:01:50+00:00 The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland Lynnerup, Niels 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Far.23131 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.23131 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor The Anatomical Record volume 298, issue 6, page 1001-1006 ISSN 1932-8486 1932-8494 journal-article 2015 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 2024-05-03T11:31:50Z ABSTRACT Fourteen Thule Culture Inuit mummies are described here, including remarks on the cultural and archaeological setting of the Thule people. The mummy finds pertain to two mummy caches: six mummies found near Nuuk, at the site Pissisarfik, and eight mummies from Qilakitsoq. The latter find is the biggest mummy find in the Arctic. The mummies are all children and females. Although their state of preservation is uneven, much data about the Thule culture people has been gleaned from them. This includes the use of facial tattooing, Paleopathology and isotopic and genetic data. Anat Rec, 298:1001–1006, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland inuit Nuuk Thule Thule culture Wiley Online Library Arctic Greenland Nuuk ENVELOPE(-52.150,-52.150,68.717,68.717) Qilakitsoq ENVELOPE(-43.876,-43.876,60.048,60.048) The Anatomical Record 298 6 1001 1006 |
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ABSTRACT Fourteen Thule Culture Inuit mummies are described here, including remarks on the cultural and archaeological setting of the Thule people. The mummy finds pertain to two mummy caches: six mummies found near Nuuk, at the site Pissisarfik, and eight mummies from Qilakitsoq. The latter find is the biggest mummy find in the Arctic. The mummies are all children and females. Although their state of preservation is uneven, much data about the Thule culture people has been gleaned from them. This includes the use of facial tattooing, Paleopathology and isotopic and genetic data. Anat Rec, 298:1001–1006, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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