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    An archaeometric approach to biocontamination with manganese pigments in ancient marine hunter-gatherers of the Atacama Desert: health, ideological, and socioecononic considerations

    The use of poisonous pigments for mortuary preparation in ancient hunter-gatherers allows us to investigate the relationship between this practice with socio-economic organization, mortuary ideology, and poten...

    Bernardo Arriaza, Leonardo Figueroa… in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023)

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    Use of LA-ICP-MS to evaluate mercury exposure or diagenesis in Inca and non-Inca mummies from northern Chile

    We tested the hair of seven mummies housed at the Museo Regional de Iquique, northern Chile, to investigate evidence of mercury exposure in the Atacama Desert. Five mummies represent local inhumations and two ...

    Bernardo Arriaza, Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena… in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2022)

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    South American Mummies

    South America’s climate primarily explains the existence of the largest set of mummies in the world, out of Egypt. Andean cultures understood these conditions and took advantage of them, develo** technical s...

    Guido Lombardi, Bernardo Arriaza in The Handbook of Mummy Studies

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    South American Mummies

    South America’s climate primarily explains the existence of the largest set of mummies in the world, out of Egypt. Andean cultures understood these conditions and took advantage of them, develo** technical s...

    Guido Lombardi, Bernardo Arriaza in The Handbook of Mummy Studies (2021)

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    Mummies in South America

    Bernardo Arriaza, Vicki Cassman in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, T… (2016)

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    Erratum: The origin and evolution of maize in the Southwestern United States

    Nature Plants 1, 14003 (2015); published 8 January 2015; corrected 14 January 2015. In the version of the Supplementary Information originally posted online, the Methods section was missing. This has been corr...

    Rute R. da Fonseca, Bruce D. Smith, Nathan Wales, Enrico Cappellini… in Nature Plants (2015)

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    The origin and evolution of maize in the Southwestern United States

    The origin of maize (Zea mays mays) in the US Southwest remains contentious, with conflicting archaeological data supporting either coastal1–4 or highland5,6 routes of diffusion of maize into the United States. F...

    Rute R. da Fonseca, Bruce D. Smith, Nathan Wales, Enrico Cappellini… in Nature Plants (2015)

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    Study of color pigments associated to archaic chinchorro mummies and grave goods in Northern Chile (7000–3500 B.P.)

    This article presents the results of physical–chemical characterization of the layers of coating covering the bodies, faces and stuffed of four mummified human bodies and seven grave goods from the Chinchorro ...

    Marcela Sepúlveda, Hélene Rousseliere, Elsa Van Elslande… in Heritage Science (2014)

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    Mummies in South America

    Bernardo Arriaza, Vicki Cassman in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, T… (2008)

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    During the Muslim rule in north India, there was a decline in Hindu culture. This adversely affected the creative spirit in indigenous art, literature, and science. Southern India was comparatively less affect...

    R. C. Gupta, Karen Louise Jolly… in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, T… (1997)