Human Dorset Remains from Igloolik, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Lynnerup, Niels, Meldgaard, Jørgen, Jakobsen, Jan, Appelt, Martin, Koch, Anders, Frøhlich, Bruno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2003
• Subjects: graves; Alarnerk (NhHd-1); early and late Dorset; physical anthropology; dental anthropology; sépultures; Dorset ancien et Dorset tardif; anthropologie physique; anthropologie dentaire; Canada; Igloolik; Melville Peninsula; Arctic; eskimo*; greenlandic; groenlandais
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63691

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 fragme...