Human Mummies : A Global Survey of Their Status and the Techniques of Conservation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- The Man in the Ice Series ; v.3 .
- The Man in the Ice Series .
THE MAN IN THE ICE 3 -- The Man in the Ice Volume 3 Human Mummies -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- General aspects -- Mummies and ethics in the museum -- Current technology in the examination of ancient man -- Non-invasive investigations of human mummified remains by radiographic techniques -- Dry human and animal remains - their treatment at the British Museum -- Egyptian mummies -- Research on mummies in Egyptology. An overview -- Development of a prototype storage and display case for the Royal Mummies of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo -- Asiatic mummies -- Excavation and preliminary studies of the ancient mummies of Xinjiang in China -- Collagen in 300 year-old tissue and a short introduction to the mummies in Japan -- Arctic mummies -- Mummies of the Arctic regions -- The palaeoimaging and forensic anthropology of frozen sailors from the Franklin Arctic expedition mass disaster (1845-1848): a detailed presentation of two radiological surveys -- The mummy find from Qilakitsoq in northwest Greenland -- South American mummies -- Early mummies from coastal Peru and Chile -- Preparation of the dead in coastal Andean preceramic populations -- Secondary applications of bioanthropological studies on South American Andean mummies -- The Prince of El Plomo: a frozen treasure -- European mummies -- European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation -- Selection of a conservation process for Lindow Man -- Guanche mummies of Tenerife (Canary Islands): conservation and scientific studies in the CRONOS Project -- Natural and artificial 13th-19th century mummies in Italy -- The roman mummy of Grottarossa -- Mummies of Saints: a particular category of Italian mummies -- Mummification in the Middle Ages -- The corpse from the Porchabella-glacier in the Grisons, Switzerland (community of Bergün) -- Iceman research: current events. Iceman's last weeks -- Post-mortem alterations of human lipids - part I: evaluation of adipocere formation and mummification by desiccation -- Post-mortem alterations of human lipids - part II: lipid composition of a skin sample from the Iceman -- Comparison of the lipid profile of the Tyrolean Iceman with bodies recovered from glaciers -- Trace element contents of the Iceman's bones -- Remarks on the anatomy of a mummified cat regarding the extent of preservation.