Human Dorset Remains from Igloolik, Canada

Arctic

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-358

  Lynnerup, Niels ^a   Meldgaard, Jørgen ^b   Jakobsen, Jan ^a   Appelt, Martin ^b   Koch, Anders ^c   Frøhlich, Bruno ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarnerk (NhHd 1); Dental anthropology; Early and late Dorset; Graves; Physical anthropology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS;

CANADA; MELVILLE PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1042291491     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic632     Document Type: Article

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