On 15-17 September, 1993, Innsbruck, Austria, search. Another remarkable case, that of the pre-Colum hosted the International Mummy Symposium. This bian miner from Restauradora Mine near Chuqincamata does not mean that beautiful North Tyrol was the setting in northern Chile, is the result of impregnation with for a gathering of the world's most prominent mummies copper salts, and the mummy became an attraction as themselves, but rather the exciting discovery of a Late "Copper Man" at various fairs around the country. As he Neolithic glacial mummy released from the ice of the was found with a complete set of miner's tools, the Otztal Alps provided the focus of attention for numerous mummy offers a unique insight into the life and working scholars from many different parts of the world to come conditions of an Indio miner of the first millennium AD. together to address various questions relating to mum Even so, the mummified remains comprise only the skel mified human remains. eton with a completely rigid covering of skin, whereas Normally researchers studying the remains of histori the other soft parts have not survived. calor prehistoric human bodies will at best have bony In contrast, mummification in ice, and especially in substance to work on. It is rarely the case that soft parts the permafrost, can produce much better results.
Produktkennzeichnungen
Herausgeber
Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Hans Nothdurfter, Dieter Zurnedden, Harald Wilfing, Konrad Spindler
ISBN-10
3709173523
ISBN-13
9783709173527
eBay Product ID (ePID)
165434001
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
308 Seiten
Verlag
Springer Vienna, Springer Wien
Autor
Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Hans Nothdurfter, Dieter Zurnedden, Harald Wilfing, Konrad Spindler
Buchtitel
Human Mummies
Format
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Buchreihe
The Man in The Ice
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Paperback
Item Length
28cm
Item Height
1cm
Item Width
21cm
Nummer Innerhalb der Serie
3
Item Weight
758g
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