The Handbook of Mummy Studies

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Owing to their unique state of preservation, mummies provide us with significant historical and scientific knowledge of mankind’s past. This handbook, written by prominent international experts in mummy studies, offers readers a comprehensive guide to new understandings of the field’s most recent trends and developments. It provides invaluable information on the health states and pathologies of historic populations and civilizations, as well as their socio-cultural and religious characteristics. Addressing the developments in mummy studies that have taken place over the past two decades – which have been neglected for as long a time – the authors excavate the ground-breaking research that has transformed scientific and cultural knowledge of our ancient predecessors. The handbook investigates the many new biotechnological tools that are routinely applied in mummy studies, ranging from morphological inspection and endoscopy to minimally invasive radiological techniques that are usedto assess states of preservation. It also looks at the paleoparasitological and pathological approaches that have been employed to reconstruct the lifestyles and pathologic conditions of ancient populations, and considers the techniques that have been applied to enhance biomedical knowledge, such as craniofacial reconstruction, chemical analysis, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA analysis. This interdisciplinary handbook will appeal to academics in historical, anthropological, archaeological and biological sciences, and will serve as an indispensable companion to researchers and students interested in worldwide mummy studies.

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Dong Hoon Shin

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Global Mummy Studies Mummification Processes Ancient Metagenomes Mummy Conservation Embalming Techniques Endoscopy and Autopsy Paleopathology Post-mortem degradation Egyptian Mummies Mummies in Catacombs and Crypts Bog bodies Museology of Mummies Mummies in East Asia Arctic and Subarctic Mummies Chinchorro mummies

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‘The Handbook of Mummy Studies represents the most up-to-date book on the mummies of the world published in recent decades. Not only does it explore the technical and ethical issues with precision, providing new insights into the scientific methodologies, and thus presenting itself as an efficacious tool in teaching, but it is also an excellent medium to explore the most intimate manifestation of memory in a constant attempt to overcome death.’

Luca Sìneo in American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2022

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