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Book Synopsis Greenland Mummies by : Jens Peder Hart Hansen
Download or read book Greenland Mummies written by Jens Peder Hart Hansen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did they die? Why were they buried together? What had been the nature of their culture and beliefs? How had they survived in the harsh Arctic climate? To solve this icy mystery, a team of archaeologists, historians, and medical specialists used modern, innovative investigative techniques. They carried out their detective work with keen scholarly curiosity, combined with respect for these people of the past. While many puzzles have been answered, others remain unsolved. The investigation has revealed that the younger child was buried alive at the age of only six months, while the other, two and a half years old, had been born with Down's syndrome. Analysis of the hair of the mummies revealed evidence of air pollution at levels similar to those of today. Speculating on reasons for a mass grave -- a form of burial the Inuit normally used only because of some catastrophe -- the researchers have reconstructed the possible events of the past. The contents of the grave shed light on the every-day life of these people, allowing the investigators to place this evidence within the larger context of Thule culture and knowledge of Inuit contact with the Norse settlements which dotted the outer margins of Greenland during the medieval era. The Greenland Mummies brings the compelling story of this fervent collaboration to the attention of the world. Not only does it provide a fascinating and insightful look into the life and culture of the Inuit in the fifteenth century, it offers an impressive testament to one of the most successful archaeological investigations ever conducted.
Book Synopsis The Greenland Mummies by : Jens Peder Hart Hansen
Download or read book The Greenland Mummies written by Jens Peder Hart Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mummies from Qilakitsoq - Eskimos in the 15th Century by :
Download or read book The Mummies from Qilakitsoq - Eskimos in the 15th Century written by and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenland Mummies written by Janet Buell and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, eight five-hundred-year-old mummies were discovered in Qilakitsoq, Greenland. Buell explains how scientists were able to determine how old the mummies were when they died and what may have caused their deaths. Information is also given on how the bodies avoided natural decay. Additionally, the book relates what the lives of these Thule (Eskimo) people may have been like: where they lived and how they dressed to protect themselves against the elements, how they hunted food, and how they used tattoos for luck and to show familial relationships.
Book Synopsis The Mummies of Qilakitsoq by : Jens P. Hart Hansen
Download or read book The Mummies of Qilakitsoq written by Jens P. Hart Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of eight bodies found in two graves at the small Inuit settlement of Qilakitsoq on the west coast of Greenland. Carbon-dating suggests that the time of burial was 1475 A.D.
Download or read book Human Mummies written by Konrad Spindler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures by : Aidan Cockburn
Download or read book Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures written by Aidan Cockburn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.
Download or read book Ice Mummies written by Eric Kudalis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes ice mummies, how they are formed, and includes some of the most famous ice mummies and where they were found, how scientists study them, and what they can teach us about the past.
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Mummy Studies by : Dong Hoon Shin
Download or read book The Handbook of Mummy Studies written by Dong Hoon Shin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owing to their unique state of preservation, mummies provide us with significant historical and scientific knowledge of humankind’s past. This handbook, written by prominent international experts in mummy studies, offers readers a comprehensive guide to new understandings of the field’s most recent trends and developments. It provides invaluable information on the health states and pathologies of historic populations and civilizations, as well as their socio-cultural and religious characteristics. Addressing the developments in mummy studies that have taken place over the past two decades – which have been neglected for as long a time – the authors excavate the ground-breaking research that has transformed scientific and cultural knowledge of our ancient predecessors. The handbook investigates the many new biotechnological tools that are routinely applied in mummy studies, ranging from morphological inspection and endoscopy to minimally invasive radiological techniques that are used to assess states of preservation. It also looks at the paleoparasitological and pathological approaches that have been employed to reconstruct the lifestyles and pathologic conditions of ancient populations, and considers the techniques that have been applied to enhance biomedical knowledge, such as craniofacial reconstruction, chemical analysis, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA analysis. This interdisciplinary handbook will appeal to academics in historical, anthropological, archaeological and biological sciences, and will serve as an indispensable companion to researchers and students interested in worldwide mummy studies.
Book Synopsis A History of Egyptian Mummies by : Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
Download or read book A History of Egyptian Mummies written by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bog Bodies written by Natalie Jane Prior and published by Allen & Unwin Academic. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of preserved human remains tells the stories of druid sacrifices found in the bogs of Britain, mummies from Greenland and Egypt, a five thousand-year-old man frozen by the glaciers of the Italian Alps, and the mysterious Knight of St. Bees.
Book Synopsis The Scientific Study of Mummies by : Arthur C. Aufderheide
Download or read book The Scientific Study of Mummies written by Arthur C. Aufderheide and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis Mummies in a New Millennium by : Niels Lynnerup
Download or read book Mummies in a New Millennium written by Niels Lynnerup and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scanning the Pharaohs by : Zahi A. Hawass
Download or read book Scanning the Pharaohs written by Zahi A. Hawass and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process and objects placed within the wrappings. Using the latest technology, including Multi-Detector Computed Tomography and DNA analysis, the authors present the results of the examination of the royal mummies. New imaging techniques not only reveal a wealth of information about each mummy, but render amazingly lifelike and detailed images of the remains.
Download or read book Mummified written by Angela Stienne and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for racial studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye.
Book Synopsis Mummies & Their Mysteries by : Charlotte Wilcox
Download or read book Mummies & Their Mysteries written by Charlotte Wilcox and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses mummies found around the world, including Peru, Denmark, and the Italian Alps, and explains how studying them provides clues to past ways of life.
Book Synopsis The Chinchorro culture by : Sanz, Nuria
Download or read book The Chinchorro culture written by Sanz, Nuria and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
