The Chinchorro culture
Author : Sanz, Nuria
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Embalming
ISBN : 9231000209
Author : Sanz, Nuria
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Embalming
ISBN : 9231000209
Author : Sonia Elizabeth Guillén
Publisher :
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Arica (Chile : Department)
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Author : Bernardo T. Arriaza
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Arica (Chile : Department)
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
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Author : Matthew Ray Doubrava
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN :
Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2008-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387752280
Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.
Author : Aidan Cockburn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521589543
A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.
Author : Konrad Spindler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3709165652
On 15-17 September, 1993, Innsbruck, Austria, search. Another remarkable case, that of the pre-Colum hosted the International Mummy Symposium. This bian miner from Restauradora Mine near Chuqincamata does not mean that beautiful North Tyrol was the setting in northern Chile, is the result of impregnation with for a gathering of the world's most prominent mummies copper salts, and the mummy became an attraction as themselves, but rather the exciting discovery of a Late "Copper Man" at various fairs around the country. As he Neolithic glacial mummy released from the ice of the was found with a complete set of miner's tools, the Otztal Alps provided the focus of attention for numerous mummy offers a unique insight into the life and working scholars from many different parts of the world to come conditions of an Indio miner of the first millennium AD. together to address various questions relating to mum Even so, the mummified remains comprise only the skel mified human remains. eton with a completely rigid covering of skin, whereas Normally researchers studying the remains of histori the other soft parts have not survived. calor prehistoric human bodies will at best have bony In contrast, mummification in ice, and especially in substance to work on. It is rarely the case that soft parts the permafrost, can produce much better results.
Author : Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521818261
Table of contents
Author : Bernardo T. Arriaza
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1995-09-17
Category : Medical
ISBN :
"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 uncertain.