Mathiassen, Therkel

Mathiassen, Therkel

▪ Danish archaeologist and ethnographer
born Sept. 5, 1892, Favrbo, Den.
died 1967

      Danish archaeologist and ethnographer whose excavations during 1921–23 to the west and north of Hudson Bay revealed the existence of the Thule prehistoric Eskimo culture.

      His doctoral dissertation for the University of Copenhagen, Archaeology of the Central Eskimos (1927), laid the groundwork for further study of Eskimo archaeology. Between 1929 and 1955 he conducted six expeditions to Greenland, where he continued his work with Eskimo remains. Mathiassen served as curator (1941–46) and as chief curator (1946–62) of the prehistoric department of the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen.

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