"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.
- ISBN10 1560985127
- ISBN13 9781560985129
- Publish Date 31 December 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Smithsonian Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English