ARCTIC

• Main Author: Bruno Frøhlich
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Arctic; Melville Peninsula; eskimo*; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.2038; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic56-4-349.pdf

ABSTRACT. Skeletal remains of four Dorset Palaeo-Eskimo individuals were found at Alarnerk (NhHd-1), Melville Peninsula, in 1954 by the joint Danish National Museum–University of Pennsylvania Expedition, which was excavating Dorset and pre-Dorset sites. These remains included one complete mandible, two fragmentary mandibles, and a cranial fragment. One of the mandibular fragments, found in a grave, was from a child approximately nine months old. The other remains were found in middens at the site. These remains add to the otherwise very sparse Dorset human material. Analysis of the dental morphology, as well as morphometric analysis of the complete mandible, shows Eskimoid characters and resemblance with later period Greenlandic human skeletal remains. Key words: graves, Alarnerk (NhHd-1), early and late Dorset, physical anthropology, dental anthropology RÉSUMÉ. En 1954, à Alarnerk (NhHd-1) dans la péninsule de Melville, l’expédition menée conjointement par le Musée national du Danemark et l’université de Pennsylvanie pour effectuer des fouilles sur des sites de culture dorset et pré-dorset, a mis au jour