The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Thule Inuit Mummies From Greenland

AU - Lynnerup, Niels

N1 - © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

PY - 2015/6/1

Y1 - 2015/6/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1002/ar.23131

DO - 10.1002/ar.23131

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 25998634

SN - 1932-8486

VL - 298

SP - 1001

EP - 1006

JO - Anatomical Record

JF - Anatomical Record

IS - 6

ER -