Studies on ancient mummies and burial archaeology
By: proceedings of the II World Congress on Mummy Studies held at the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, February of 1995 ; editors, Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo, Conrado Rodríguez-Martín
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Fundación Erigaie; Instituto Canario de Bioantrropología; Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bogotá, Colombia
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789583326189
Subjects: Mummies; Congresses; Human remains (Archaeology); Burial
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

English or Spanish, with summaries in English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Presentación --; title: The history of research on mummies:; title: Historia de las investigaciones en momias  -- Conrado Rodríguez-Martín y Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo; title: Before and after 1973 : mummy research, the role of the Paleopathology Association, and the influence of Aidan Cockburn  -- Eve Cockburn; title: The Manchester Egyptian Mummy Research Project : its contribution from 1972 to 1995  -- Rosalie David; title: Chinchorro studies : a historical perspective  -- Vicki Cassman and Bernardo T. Arriaza; title: Overview of mummy studies in the southwestern United States  -- Sheila Dorsey Vinton and Karl J. Reinhard; title: The Tollund Man and the Elling Woman  -- Christian Fischer; title: Funerary practices:; title: Mummies of the north coast of Peru  -- John W. Verano; title: Prehispanic mortuary practices in northern Chile  -- Bernardo T. Arriaza; title: The Black Chinchorro Period (5,050-2,800 years B.C.)  -- Bernardo T. Arriaza; title: Form and function of aboriginal mummification in Colombia -- Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo; title: Mortuary practices as political expression : the view from prehispanic southwestern Colombia  -- Cristóbal Gnecco; title: Espacios para morir entre los indios curia : el caso de Arquía  -- Jorge Morales Gómez; title: Artificially reconstructed human bodies : false mummies in Spain  -- Francisco Etxeberria [and others]; title: Unique mummification practices during the Ptolemaic Period at Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt  -- Arthur C. Aufderheide, Michael Zlonis and Larry W. Cartmell; title: The use of natron in human mummification : a modern experiment  -- Bob Brier and Ronald S. Wade; title: Dietary analysis:; title: Dietary analysis of prehistoria Lower and Middle Osmore drainage populations of southern Peru using stable isotopes ([Greek lower case delta]¹³C and [Greek lower case delta]¹⁵N)  -- Karin Sandness Bruwelheide; title: Archaeological remains for the chemical dietary reconstruction of a Late Phase Chinchorro site, Camarones 15D, southern Chile -- Mario Rivera and Arthur C. Auderheide; title: Chemical dietary reconstruction of the Chinchorro mummies from the CAM-15D site in northern Chile  -- Archur C. Aufderheide and Mario Rivera; title: Archaeoparasitology:; title: 'Chagas' disease : natural history, pathology and diagnosis  -- Arthur C. Aufderheide; title: Momias y arqueoparasitología en el Nuevo Mundo  -- Felipe Guhl y Felipa Cárdenas-Arroyo; title: Hookworm in the Americas : an alternative to transpacific contact  -- John M. Hawdon and Susan A. Johnston; title: Non-invasive methods:; title: Analysis of late 19th century cemetary Crow (Indian) mummies from the Northwestern Plains  -- Douglas W. Owsley and Karin L. Sandness; title: Non-destructive analysis of Miras Chiribaya mummy from Arica, Chile  -- Karl J. Reinhard, Sonia Guillén, Joseph stavas, and Debra K. Meier; title: Nicotine and nicotine metabolites in South American Pre-Colombian mummy hair -- Larry W. Cartmell, Angela Springfield and Cheryl Weems; title: Problemática general de los estudios radiográficos en paleopatología  -- Domingo Campillo; title: Consideraciones acerca de las técnicas de embalsamamiento y de los estudios con tomografía computarizada, tras el examen de una momia de principios del presente siglo  -- Domingo Campillo; title: The man in the ice:; title: New radiocarbon dates to access the culturlal and chronological characterisation of the man in the ice  -- Th. R. Niklaus, G. Bonanii, R. De Marinis, A. Pedrotti, B.R. Prinoth-Fornwagner and L. Dal Ri; title: Evidence of medical treatment in the Tyrolean Iceman  -- Torstein Sjøvold, Othmar Gaber and Karl-Heinz Künzel; title: Conservation:; title: Conservación de momias : un estudio comparado de los tratamientos de conservación preventivos y activos -- María García Morales y María Isabel Herráez Martín.