TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spindler,Konrad
AU  - Wilfing,Harald
AU  - Rastbichler-Zissernig,Elisabeth
AU  - ZurNedden,Dieter
AU  - Nothdurfter,Hans
TI  - Human Mummies: A Global Survey of Their Status and the Techniques of Conservation
T2  - The Man in the Ice Series
SN  - 9783709165652
AV  - QK 
U1  - 393/.3 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Vienna
PB  - Springer Wien
KW  - Mummies--Collection and preservation--Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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