Analysis of a 19th-century Sadlermiut woman’s skull shows evidence of polar bear attack.
One particular item caught the attention of museum archeologist Karen Ryan: the punctured skull of a Sadlermiut woman, which was first excavated from a settlement southeast of Coral Harbour in the 1950s.
“[Researchers] thought initially it could have been a gunshot wound, because there are holes on either side of her cranium,” Ryan said. “But when we looked again, we thought: If it wasn’t a gunshot, what could it have been?”
The remains of this woman were found partially exposed inside a tent ring on the outskirts of a Southampton Island settlement, which researchers think could have existed some time during the 19th century.
Story: Sarah Rogers, Nunatsiaq Online | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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