Journal article
A prehistoric Egyptian mummy: Evidence for an ‘embalming recipe’ and the evolution of early formative funerary treatments
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Interdisciplinary scientific investigations utilising chemical analysis, shotgun metagenomics, textile analysis and radiocarbon dating have been applied to the study of an intact prehistoric Egyptian mummy, allowing insights into when this individual lived and died, and the funerary treatments employed in the preparation of the body. Here we present the first evidence for an extant prehistoric mummy that has undergone treatment with notably similar formative complex ‘balms’ that would later c...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Archaeological Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 100
- Pages:
- 191-200
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1095-9238
- ISSN:
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0305-4403
- Source identifiers:
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941327
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- Local pid:
- pubs:941327
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Jones, etal
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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