Title: Beyond death
First published: 1995
Description: "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.
Subjects: Material culture, Funeral customs and rites, Indians of South America, Mummies, Antiquities, Embalming, Anthropometry, Indians of south america, social life and customs, Chile, antiquities, South American Indians, History, Funeral Rites
Places: Arica (Dept.), Chile, Arica (Chile : Dept.)
LC classification: F3069.1.A74 A76 1995