by Jens Peder Hart Hansen, Jørgen Meldgaard, Jørgen Nordqvist · British Museum Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780714125008
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«The Greenland Mummies» is the archaeology work by editors Jens Peder Hart Hansen, Jørgen Meldgaard and Jørgen Nordqvist (British Museum Press, hardback).
The book documents the excavation of Qilakitsoq in western Greenland and the discovery of Inuit graves with naturally mummified bodies dating to around 1500. Through scientific studies and photographs, it describes the daily life, beliefs, clothing, health and circumstances of death of those individuals.
1991 edition, translated from the Danish of «Qilakitsoq», with 192 pages, bibliography and index.
Aimed at readers interested in archaeology, anthropology and the history of Arctic peoples, and at university students.
