At a Svalbard burial site called Corpse Point, 17th-century whalers are melting out of the permafrost. Their bones document scurvy, spinal degeneration, and a brutal working life — but the textiles that dressed them are almost gone. #Bioarchaeology #ArcticHeritage #ClimateAndCulture https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-whalers-of-corpse-point-what
The Whalers of Corpse Point: What Melting Permafrost Is Erasing, and What Bones Remember

A burial ground in the High Arctic is disappearing — and the skeletons it holds tell a story of an industry that wore young men to nothing

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