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"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 conti...

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Main Author: Arriaza, Bernardo T. (autor.)
Other Authors: Oñate, Marlene (Translator), Arriaza, Bernardo T.
Format: eBook
Language:Spanish
English
Published: Santiago de Chile : Editorial Universitaria, [2015]
Edition:Edición electrónica.
Series:Imagen de Chile
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Online Access:https://elibro.net/ereader/unanicaragua/222372
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:1 recurso en línea : ilustraciones (algo de color)
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices.
ISBN:9789561127111