Mummies, disease & ancient cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cockburn, Aidan, Cockburn, Eve, Reyman, Theodore A. (Theodore Allen), 1931-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mummies of ancient Egypt / William H. Peck
  • Disease in ancient Egypt / A.T. Sandison and Edmund Tapp
  • Dental health in ancient Egypt / James E. Harris, Paul V. Ponitz and Brian K. Ingalls
  • A classic mummy: PUM II / Aidan Cockburn, Robin A. Barraco, William H. Peck and Theodore A. Reyman
  • ROM I: mummification for the common people / Nicholas B. Millet, Gerald D. Hart, Theodore A. Reyman, Michael R. Zimmerman and Peter K. Lewin
  • Egyptian mummification with evisceration per ano / Theodore A. Reyman and William H. Peck
  • Mummies and mummification practices in the southern and southwestern United States / Mahmoud Y. El-Najjar, Thomas M.J. Mulinski and Karl J. Reinhard
  • Aleutian and Alaskan mummies / Michael R. Zimmerman
  • Mummies of Peru / James M. Vreeland, Jr.
  • South American mummies: culture and disease / Bernardo T. Arriaza, Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo, Ekkehard Kleiss and John W. Verano
  • Bog bodies of Denmark and northwestern Europe / Christian Fischer
  • Mummies from Italy, North Africa and the Canary Islands / Antonio Ascenzi, Paolo Bianco, Gino Fornaciari and Conrado Rodríguez Martín
  • Mummification in Australia and Melanesia / Graeme L. Pretty and Angela Calder
  • Mummies from Japan and China / Kiyohiko Sakurai, Tamotsu Ogata, Iwataro Morimoto, Peng Long-Xiang and Wu Zhong-Bi
  • Bodies from cold regions / J.P. Hart Hansen
  • New investigative techniques / Theodore A. Reyman, Henrik Nielsen, Ingolf Thuesen, Derek N.H. Notman, Karl J. Reinhard, Edmund Tapp and Tony Waldron.