Introduction

Authors

  • J. P. Hart Hansen
  • J. Meldgaard
  • C. Andreasen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/mog-ms.v12.146580

Abstract

This chapter outlines the story of the find of eight 500-year-old mummified Eskimo bodies at Qilakitsoq in the Uummannaq district of Northwestern Greenland and of the interdisciplinary scientific investigations carried out by researchers in natural science, medicine, and cultural history as an introduction to a volume of 26 scientific reports.

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Published

1990-01-26