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Human Mummies: A Global Survey of their Status and the Techniques of Conservation (The Man in the Ice) [Hardcover]

Konrad Spindler (Editor), Harald Wilfing (Editor), Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig (Editor), Dieter ZurNedden (Editor), Hans Nothdurfter (Editor)
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May 14, 1996 The Man in the Ice (Book 3)
The contributions to the volume have their origin in a spontaneously organized meeting of experts at Innsbruck 1991 for finding the best measures for the conservation of the newly found "Man in the Ice”. Due to their target the techniques of conservation of corpses all over the world are described: Smoke-drying (Ecuador), sun-drying (Canary Islands), natural mummification by combination of low temperatures and dry air (Eskimo mummies of Qilakitsoq); the reader also will find descriptions of permafrost mummies of Greenland and "bog-mummies” of North-West-Europe including new methods of investigation in the fields of roentgenological, microbiological, microscopical, and microchemical methods and the latest imaging techniques in medical archaeology.

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"... Die vorliegenden Berichte über neue Funde und Ergebnisse dieser als ‚Sternstunde der Archäologie‘ eingestuften Entdeckung sind die ersten wissenschaftlich fundierten Annäherungen an einen einmalig konservierten Menschen aus der späten Jungsteinzeit. Die Aufsatzsammlung zeigt, daß unter anderem mit Hilfe von Gen- oder Pollenanalysen und elektronenmikroskopischen Bildern unerwartete Einblicke in die Lebensgewohnheiten des Jungsteinzeitmannes möglich werden, aber auch in die Abbauprozesse von organischem Material wie Haut und Muskeln ... Eine Fülle von Farb- und Schwarzweißbildern, Grafiken und Zeichnungen ergänzen die Beiträge. Eine Stärke dieser Sammlung machen die Aufsätze über die kulturhistorischen Hintergründe aus ... Der ‚bunte‘ Eindruck dieser Aufsatzsammlung wird verstärkt durch eine linguistische Analyse der in den Medien verwendeten Personenbezeichnungen für den ‚Mann im Eis‘. Vom ‚urzeitlichen Alpenwanderer‘ bis zum ‚frozen Fritz‘ der Amerikaner sind alle Facetten medienwirksamer Phantasie aufgeführt ..." Freiburger Universitätsblätter, Juni 1996 "Die zahlreichen gekonnt zusammengestellten Forschungsarbeiten von international renommierten Fachleuten eröffnen dem Anatomen eine sehr interessant gestaltete Sicht auf die moderne Mumienforschung. Das Buch stellt für jeden Anatomen nicht nur eine Abwechslung und Wissenserweiterung dar, in der nicht etwa Fakten von dem Spezialisten für den Spezialisten aneinandergereiht sind, sondern eine fesselnde und umfassende Darlegung eines anatomisch faszinierenden Forschungsgebietes wird aufgetan". Annals of Anatomy Heft 5/97 "... Ausgehend von Darstellungen zu allgemeinen Aspekten der Mumifizierung und der technischen Untersuchung von Mumien, finden sich hier – regional gegliedert – Berichte über Mumien aus dem ägyptischen, dem chinesisch-japanischen, dem arktischen, dem südamerikanischen und dem europäischen Bereich. Diese mit Bildmaterial gut dokumentierten Beiträge werden ergänzt durch einige weitere ... Details. Der Band gibt einen guten Überblick über die Vielfalt von Mumienfunden in vielen Teilen der Welt, über ihre Entstehung, die Fundumstände und die Versuche einer wissenschaftlichen Auswertung." Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, 2/3, 1999

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Text: English
Introduction: French, German, Italian

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  • Hardcover: 294 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 14, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3211826599
  • ISBN-13: 978-3211826591
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.7 inches
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gleanings from the Ice Age Man, June 2, 2004
This review is from: Human Mummies: A Global Survey of their Status and the Techniques of Conservation (The Man in the Ice) (Hardcover)
Remember the excitement in the early 1990s about the frozen man found in the Alps? The "Man the the Ice". He had laid there since the last Ice Age. It was a precious opportunity for scientists to investigate human remains from that period, with clothing and tissue present and amenable to analysis.

This book is a partial summary of those efforts. (The third volume.) It actually spans analyses done on corpses found all over the world. These might have been deliberately or accidentally preserved, by various means. Discussions are made about the relative efficacies of those methods, from our standpoint, centuries or millenia hence; in terms of how much has been left for us to study.

The motivating event was that Ice Age man. As the book makes clear, from him, we have found much about human life and capabilities in that era.

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desiccation type, opera cit, nocte primum, llama foetuses, artificial mummification, bioanthropological studies, cum aromatibus, frozen sailors, mummy research, mummy studies, natural mummification, adipocere formation, bog bodies, mummification practices, mummified tissues, les momies, aluminum base plate, royal mummies, plain film radiographs, burial environment, human lipids, strontium content, water corpse, dental wear, wax type
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British Museum, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, New York, Domenico Maggiore, William Braine, World Congress, Egyptian Museum, Middle Ages, Alto Ramirez, Canary Islands, Forensic Medicine, John Hartnell, Franklin Arctic, Borre Fen, South America, University of Innsbruck, Angelo Soliman, King William Island, National Museum of Natural History, Santa Margherita da Cortona, Zusammenfassung Die, Lawrence Island, Sir John Franklin, Department of Anthropology, Johann Philipp
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