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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)