The Human Skeletons from Herjólfsnes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4629593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niels Lynnerup (0000-0002-7771-5376, National Vaccine and Serum Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 201 |
| Pages | 19-23 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933 |
| Publisher | Journal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3721/037.002.s204 |
| OpenAlex | W2153875353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
When the skeletons from Herjólfsnes were examined after excavation in Greenland, it was hoped that they might shed light on the fate of the Norse colonies there. They were examined at a time when biological anthropology was very much concerned with issues such as race, racial intermixture, and racial degeneration. For the examining scientists, the skeletons from Herjólfsnes did seem to support theories of an isolated, degenerate, and sickly population, doomed to extinction. Indeed, some of the results of these analyses still crop up in present-day publications
Archaeology · Biology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Population · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Gender Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Paleontology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |