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Johan ReinhardPublication Details
BookNational Geographic Society2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F3429.3.M8 R46 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
It provides the proverbial time capsule, a human frozen in time, whose study has yielded results ranging from the best preserved DNA of its age to the first complete clothing of an Inca noble woman. Dr. Reinhard’s work at Ampato and on subsequent expeditions to other Andean peaks resulted in his finding ten Inca human sacrifices and the richest collection of Inca artifacts ever made. The physical hazards of high-altitude archaeology, the insight his discoveries yield on the lives and culture of the Inca, the intrigues and strange, even cult-like, activities surrounding the mummies once they were displayed around the world, provide a human dimension to his science that Dr. Reinhard recounts in his book. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Discovery on Ampato
- Return of the maiden
- Extreme archaeology
- Mummies and media
- The mountains of power
- Juanita’s journey
- Peaks, storms, and sarita
- Earth mother, mountain father
- Misti’s children
- Quehuar’s headless mummy
- Mountain of dreams
- Past perfect
ISBN
- 0792268385
- 9780792268383
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