Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies

Chamberlain, Andrew T.; Pearson, Michael Parker

ISBN 10: 0714127558 / ISBN 13: 9780714127552

Verlag: British Museum Press, 2001

Beschreibung

1st edition hardback, 2001. Original pictorial dustjacket VG. Green cloth gilt as new. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. 89 black & white and 14 colour illustrations. 207 pages.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-18998018719

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies
• Verlag: British Museum Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0714127558
• ISBN-13: 9780714127552
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Extensively illustrated with the haunting images of many of the cases discussed, "Earthly Remains" is a compelling book that should appeal to everyone's sense of mystery in the history and origins of our ancestors.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew T. Chamberlain, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of Sheffield, is author of Human Remains in the Interpreting the Past series. Michael Parker Pearson is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield and a specialist in funerary archaeology. His publications include Bronze Age Britain and 'Mortuary Analysis' in the Oxford Companion to Archaeology.