The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland
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 bigg...
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ftcopenhagenunip:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/1feb5ce4-4bf8-49e4-99e7-2ddbbfc0f65b 2024-05-12T07:59:37+00:00 The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland Lynnerup, Niels 2015-06 https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/the-thule-inuit-mummies-from-greenland(1feb5ce4-4bf8-49e4-99e7-2ddbbfc0f65b).html https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Lynnerup , N 2015 , ' The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland ' , Anatomical Record , vol. 298 , no. 6 , pp. 1001-1006 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 article 2015 ftcopenhagenunip https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 2024-04-18T00:28:13Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland inuit Nuuk Thule Thule culture University of Copenhagen: Research 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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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. |
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https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/the-thule-inuit-mummies-from-greenland(1feb5ce4-4bf8-49e4-99e7-2ddbbfc0f65b).html https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 |
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Lynnerup , N 2015 , ' The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland ' , Anatomical Record , vol. 298 , no. 6 , pp. 1001-1006 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23131 |
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