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"Comprehensive study of 282 examples permits classification, description, and interpretation of mummification techniques and of details of health, diet, technology, settlement, and society between 5000 and 1700 BC. Argues that mummification was invented in Arica-Camerones region to insure conti...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arriaza, Bernardo T. (autor.)
Other Authors: Oñate, Marlene (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:Español
Inglés
Published: Santiago de Chile : Editorial Universitaria, [2015]
Edition:Edición electrónica.
Series:Imagen de Chile
Subjects:
Indios de América del Sur > Costumbres y ritos funerarios > Chile > Arica (Departamento)
Indios de América del Sur > Antropometría > Chile > Arica (Departamento)
Indios de América del Sur > Cultura material > Chile > Arica (Departamento)
Momias > Chile > Arica (Departamento)
Embalsamamiento > Chile > Arica (Departamento)
Arica (Chile : Departamento) > Antigüedades.
Libros electrónicos.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Comprehensive study of 282 examples permits classification, description, and interpretation of mummification techniques and of details of health, diet, technology, settlement, and society between 5000 and 1700 BC. Argues that mummification was invented in Arica-Camerones region to insure continuity of life in the context of environmental uncertainty"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Physical Description:1 recurso en línea : ilustraciones (algo de color)
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices.
ISBN:9789561127111

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