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Living with the dead: mummification and post-mortem treatment in Bronze Age Britain
Archaeology International, 2023 A long-recognised problem in British prehistory is the replacement of formal cemeteries and burials from 1600 bce onwards by deposits with disarticulated human remains, many of them found on settlements. At the Bronze Age settlement site of Cladh Hallan
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Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AIn southern China and Southeast Asia (collectively, Southeastern Asia), Terminal Pleistocene and Early to Middle Holocene (ca. 12,000 to 4,000 cal. BP) hunter-gatherer burials feature tightly crouched or squatting postures, sometimes with indications of ...
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Différer la décomposition : le temps suspendu ?
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2013 Whatever mummification processes can be, natural or artificial, the aim of such a practice is usually to prevent a corpse to become skeletonized, and more generally to lessen the deterioration of the body which is to be buried.
Pascal Sellier, Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento
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, 2010 The ancient Egyptians carried out mummification, the artificial preservation of the body, to ensure the survival of the body after death. They believed that the dead body could be reanimated by the ka (spiritual essence) and that the destruction of the ...
Ikram, Salima
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Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I (1525–1504 BC) Using CT
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 The mummy of King Amenhotep I (18th Dynasty c.1525–1504 BC) was reburied by the 21st Dynasty priests at Deir el-Bahari Royal Cache. In 1881 the mummy was found fully wrapped and was one of few royal mummies that have not been unwrapped in modern times ...
Sahar N. Saleem, Zahi Hawass
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The girl from the Church of the Sacrament: a case of congenital syphilis in XVIII century Lisbon
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006 Syphilis is a sexually or congenitally transmitted infectious disease with an impact on the health of human populations that has undergone important cycles in different countries and periods of history.
Sheila Mendonça de Souza +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Although Ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals over the course of one millennium, many details of these mummification protocols remain unknown.
Camille Berruyer +2 more
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Археология евразийских степей, 2023 The article presents paleoanthropological materials from the early period of the functioning of the Berel burial mound Pazyryk culture. The monument is located in Altai (Republic of Kazakhstan).
Egor P. Kitov
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Subalternity and the Mummification of Culture in Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks” [PDF]
, 2016 Gramsci’s concept of mummification is rarely remarked upon in the literature and has not received the systematic treatment afforded to other concepts in his lexicon.
Jackson, RP
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Flavour and Fragrance Journal, EarlyView.This review bridges ancestral indigenous knowledge with modern pharmacology, summarizing the phytochemistry and antimicrobial properties of essential oils from seven native American species. It highlights their significant activity against bacterial, fungal and parasitic pathogens, emphasizing their potential as sustainable therapeutic and agricultural
Arley Rey Páez +2 more
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