Abstract
The mummified bodies of some deceased Eskimos were incidently discovered in two graves in a rock cleft near the abandoned settlement Qilakitsoq in the Uummannaq district of Northwestern Greenland in 1972. At first, nothing happened besides registration of the find in the files of the Greenland Museum. Neither the extent of the find was known, nor the number of buried persons. In early 1978, however, the graves were opened and samples were taken for radio carbon dating. The mummified bodies of two children, who were encountered just below the cap stones, were sent to Copenhagen with the samples.
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Hansen, J.P.H., Nordqvist, J. (1996). The mummy find from Qilakitsoq in northwest Greenland. In: Spindler, K., Wilfing, H., Rastbichler-Zissernig, E., zur Nedden, D., Nothdurfter, H. (eds) Human Mummies. The Man in the Ice, vol 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6565-2_11
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