BEYOND DEATH"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 uncertain. |
Contents
THE CHINCHORRO CULTURE | 5 |
THEORY BEHIND DEATH RITUALS | 21 |
CHINCHORRO HABITAT | 31 |
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Acha adult Allison ancient Andean anthropologist archaeologist Arica Arica-Camarones Arriaza artificial mummification practices artificially prepared mummies Atacama coast Atacama Desert Aufderheide bandage Bird black mummies bones burial buried cadaver Camarones 14 camelid cemeteries ceremonies Chilca Chinchorro culture Chinchorro mummies Chinchorro sites Chungará coastal Cobija complex mummies corpse Dauelsberg dead early epoch evidence evisceration extended position females fishhooks fishing Focacci highland Huaca Prieta huacas human Inca infections Iquique Kendrick-Murdock late Chinchorro lithic living Llagostera manganese maritime Midden Morro mortuary practices mud-coated mummies mummification techniques mummified bodies mummy from Arica Muñoz and Chacama natural mummies Norte de Chile northern Chile Núñez Osteoarthritis osteoporosis paint Paloma Peru populations porotic hyperostosis preceramic Quiani Quiani 9 Quilter radiocarbon dates red mummies reed rites Rivera Schiappacasse and Niemeyer sedentism skin skull social society soul spiritual spondylolysis Standen statuette mummies styles subsistence Tiliviche treatment types Uhle Universidad de Tarapacá vertebral wrapped
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Spiritual Tattoo: A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification ... John A. Rush No preview available - 2005 |