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The Tres Ventanas Mummies of Peru
(Wiley, 2015)
The Tres Ventanas mummies of Peru are thought to be among the oldest mummies in existence, dating to between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. A preliminary assessment is made of the potential of these mummies for use in future ...
ABO blood groups in Chilean and Peruvian mummies. II. Results of agglutination‐inhibition technique
(1978)
ABO blood groups of Peruvian and Chilean mummies were determined with the agglutination‐inhibition method. In Peru all ABO blood groups were found in the period from 3000 B.C. to 1400 A.D.; from this period to 1650 only A ...
Rescue Archaeology of the Inca Mummy on Mount Quehuar, Argentina
(Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, 2005-12)
Over five hundred years ago the Incas carried out dramatic ceremonies on mountain summits, many of which were over 6,000 meters high. The most important offerings made at these sites involved human sacrifices. On Mount ...
"Precolumbian Moulages" Huacos, Mummies and Photographs in the International Controversy over Precolumbian Diseases, 1894-1910“Pre-columbian moulages”. Huacos, mummies and photographs in the controversy over precolumbian diseases, 1894-1910
(Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 2015-12)
By the late nineteenth century an international controversy arose referred to the probable existence of certain diseases such as leprosy, syphilis and lupus in pre-Columbian America. Led by the American physician Albert ...
Ultrastructural preservation of tissues and their reaction to the infection with trichinella in the El Plomo mummy: muscle fiber ultrastructure and trichinosis/mummy of the Cerro El Plomo
(Wiley, 2017)
The El Plomo mummy was a pre-Columbian Incan child who was found mummified in the Andes Mountains above an altitude of 17,700 feet. In the environment, natural mummification occurred due to low temperatures and strong ...
Diaphragmatic hernia associated with strangulation of the small bowel in an Atacamena mummy
(1978)
This is the second case of a diaphragmatic herniafrom 200 autopsies of mummies of Atacamena Indians found in northern Chile. This case is noted in an individual who died in the third century A.D. as a result of strangulation ...
ABO blood groups in Peruvian mummies. I. An evaluation of techniques
(1976)
Blood groups of Peruvian mummies of known origin were determined by three different methods: agglutination‐inhibition, induction of antibody production and mixed cell agglutination. The three techniques gave identical ...
MULTISYSTEMIC TUBERCULOSIS IN A PRE-COLUMBIAN PERUVIAN MUMMY: FOUR DIAGNOSTIC LEVELS, AND A PALEOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS
(Universidad de Tarapacá<br>Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas<br>Departamento de Antropología, 2000)
Frozen mummies and the archaeology of high mountains in the construction of andean identity
(Berghahn Books, 2017)
The importance of the mummies to the definition of Andean identity could remain unperceived, or could remain difficult to understand, as it comes from foreign cultural contexts or belief systems. Familiarity with the dead ...