Cultura Chinchorro : las momias artificiales más antiguas del mundo / Bernardo Arriaza T. ; traducción de Marlene Oñate.
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TextLanguage: Spanish Original language: English Series: Colección Imagen de ChilePublisher: Santiago de Chile : Editorial Universitaria, [2016]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Edición electrónicaDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)Content type: - text
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- Beyond death. Spanish (Oñate)
- Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Chile -- Arica (Department)
- Indians of South America -- Anthropometry -- Chile -- Arica (Department)
- Indians of South America -- Material culture -- Chile -- Arica (Department)
- Mummies -- Chile -- Arica (Department)
- Embalming -- Chile -- Arica (Department)
- Arica (Chile : Department) -- Antiquities
- 393.30983123
- F3069.1.A74 ebook
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"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.
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