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Dr. Asta Mønsted

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The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

Tattoos, okay.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

Because their skin is so well preserved, you can see their nails clearly.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

I believe you can even see the lashes on some of their eyes.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

It's amazing.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

And there you really feel like you are staring into the people of the past.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

You need to look that up, even though it might look a little scary, but it's such an amazing find and such a rich find.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

And it tells us a lot about what sort of diseases could they have at the time.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

It's amazing.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

We have stone graves, burials in the landscape.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

And oftentimes they are connected to settlements that we have already registered.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

So you have a settlement and then around the periphery, of course, depending on the landscape itself, if it's very rocky or if it's very flat,

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

that will tell us where the periphery is.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

And also depending on, is it a very stony area?

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

But then we find the graves and oftentimes they would be burying one person within one grave.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

But we also see examples from Sissimut when they were clearing out to make the new airport, well, new back then airport, they found a grave where

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

You had buried one person, but then you had reused it.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

So you had pushed the bones a little aside and then buried a new person.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

And I believe it was six or seven times you had done that.

The Ancients
Prehistoric Greenland

Then we find the graves are often also sometimes up in the mountain or in the back.