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Beyond death

Bernardo T. Arriaza

1995176 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Smithsonian Books · ENGISBN 9781560988540
  • 1995Smithsonian Institution Press · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9781560985129

"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.

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