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On 15-17 September, 1993, Innsbruck, Austria, search. Another remarkable case, that of the pre-Colum hosted the International Mummy Symposium. This bian miner from Restauradora Mine near Chuqincamata does not mean that beautiful North Tyrol was the setting in northern Chile, is the result of impregnation with for a gathering of the world's most prominent mummies copper salts, and the mummy became an attraction as themselves, but rather the exciting discovery of a Late "Copper Man" at various fairs around the country. As he Neolithic glacial mummy released from the ice of the was found with a complete set of miner's tools, the Otztal Alps provided the focus of attention for numerous mummy offers a unique insight into the life and working scholars from many different parts of the world to come conditions of an Indio miner of the first millennium AD. together to address various questions relating to mum Even so, the mummified remains comprise only the skel mified human remains. eton with a completely rigid covering of skin, whereas Normally researchers studying the remains of histori the other soft parts have not survived. calor prehistoric human bodies will at best have bony In contrast, mummification in ice, and especially in substance to work on. It is rarely the case that soft parts the permafrost, can produce much better results.
Contents
General aspects.- Mummies and ethics in the museu.- Current technology in the examination of acient man.- Non-invasive investigations of human mummified remains by radiographic technique.- Dry human and animal remains — their treatment at the British Museu.- 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 Japa.- 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 survey.- 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 pre-ceramic populations.- Secondary applications of bioanthropological studies on South American Andean mummies.- The Prince of El Plomo: a frozen treasur.- European mummies.- European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation.- Selection of a conservation process for Lindow Ma.- 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 mummie.- Mummification in the Middle Age.- The corpse from the Porchabella-glacier in the Grisons, Switzerland (community of Bergün.- Iceman research: current events.- Iceman's last week.- Post-mortem alterations of human lipids -partI: evaluation of adipocere formation and mummification by desiccatio.- Post-mortem alterations of human lipids — part II: lipid composition of a skin sample from the Icema.- Comparison of the lipid profile of the Tyrolean Iceman with bodies recovered from glaciers.- Trace element contents of the Iceman's bones. Preliminary result.- Remarks on the anatomy of a mummified cat regarding the extent of preservation.
