Dr. Asta Mønsted
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Because their skin is so well preserved, you can see their nails clearly.
I believe you can even see the lashes on some of their eyes.
And there you really feel like you are staring into the people of the past.
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.
And it tells us a lot about what sort of diseases could they have at the time.
We have stone graves, burials in the landscape.
And oftentimes they are connected to settlements that we have already registered.
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,
that will tell us where the periphery is.
And also depending on, is it a very stony area?
But then we find the graves and oftentimes they would be burying one person within one grave.
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
You had buried one person, but then you had reused it.
So you had pushed the bones a little aside and then buried a new person.
And I believe it was six or seven times you had done that.
Then we find the graves are often also sometimes up in the mountain or in the back.