Beyond death : the Chinchorro mummies of ancient Chile /
"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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Washington :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
©1995.
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