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Mummies, disease & ancient cultures /
"This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved as with the ancient Egyptians using a variety of complex techniques, others accidentally by dry baking heat, intense cold and ice, or by tanning in pea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mummies of ancient Egypt / William H. Peck
- Disease in ancient Egypt / A.T. Sandison and Edmund Tapp
- Dental health in ancient Egypt / James E. Harris, Paul V. Ponitz and Brian K. Ingalls
- A classic mummy: PUM II / Aidan Cockburn, Robin A. Barraco, William H. Peck and Theodore A. Reyman
- ROM I: mummification for the common people / Nicholas B. Millet, Gerald D. Hart, Theodore A. Reyman, Michael R. Zimmerman and Peter K. Lewin
- Egyptian mummification with evisceration per ano / Theodore A. Reyman and William H. Peck
- Mummies and mummification practices in the southern and southwestern United States / Mahmoud Y. El-Najjar, Thomas M.J. Mulinski and Karl J. Reinhard
- Aleutian and Alaskan mummies / Michael R. Zimmerman
- Mummies of Peru / James M. Vreeland, Jr.
- South American mummies: culture and disease / Bernardo T. Arriaza, Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo, Ekkehard Kleiss and John W. Verano
- Bog bodies of Denmark and northwestern Europe / Christian Fischer
- Mummies from Italy, North Africa and the Canary Islands / Antonio Ascenzi, Paolo Bianco, Gino Fornaciari and Conrado Rodríguez Martín
- Mummification in Australia and Melanesia / Graeme L. Pretty and Angela Calder
- Mummies from Japan and China / Kiyohiko Sakurai, Tamotsu Ogata, Iwataro Morimoto, Peng Long-Xiang and Wu Zhong-Bi
- Bodies from cold regions / J.P. Hart Hansen
- New investigative techniques / Theodore A. Reyman, Henrik Nielsen, Ingolf Thuesen, Derek N.H. Notman, Karl J. Reinhard, Edmund Tapp and Tony Waldron.