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Yearbook of Mummy Studies Yearbook Yearbook of Mummy Studies Is Published Annually 6-2011 E-mail Address Name or order online at Please send this order form Yearbook Yearbook of Phone: + 49 89 742827-0 Phone: + Germany 81379 München Wolfratshauser Straße 27 Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil E-mail: [email protected] of Mummy Studies Mummy Studies www.pfeil-verlag.de The “Yearbook of Mummy Studies” is the first, and only, academic journal devoted solely to the publication • Fax: + 49 89 7242772 Fax: + • of multidisciplinary research from all aspects www.pfeil-verlag.de of mummy studies. HHeathereather GGill-Frerking,ill-Frerking, WWilfriedilfried RRosendahlosendahl Yearbook of Mummy Studies is published annually. & AAlbertlbert ZZinkink ((editors)editors) Editors in Chief Heather Gill-Frerking, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, German Mummy Project, Mannheim, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Wilfried Rosendahl, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, German Mummy Project, Mannheim, Germany. 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Niels Lynnerup, Copenhagen, Denmark. Karl J. Reinhard, Lincoln, USA. Conrado Rodríguez Martín, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain. Franco Ugo Rollo, Camerino, Italy. Frank J. Rühli, Zürich, Switzerland. Michael Schultz, Göttingen, Germany. Dong Hoon Shin, Seoul, Korea. Sheila Maria Ferraz Mendonça de Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mark Spigelman, Jerusalem, Israel. VVerlagerlag DDr.r. FFriedrichriedrich PPfeilfeil · MMünchenünchen þ Contents of Volume 1 Editorial: The Yearbook of Mummy Studies (p. 5) The Enigma of Ancient Egyptian Excerebration. – Arthur C. Aufderheide (p. 7-10) A Field Report on the Mummification Practices of the Anga of Koke Vil- lage, Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. – Ronald G. Beckett, Ulla Lohmann and Josh Bernstein (p. 11-17) A Unique Field Mummy Conservation Project in Papua New Guinea. – Ronald G. Beckett, Ulla Lohmann and Josh Bernstein (p. 9-27) The Biological Archive of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Turin: Microscopic Analysis to assess the Preservation of Ancient Hu- man Hair. – Rosa Boano, Donatella Meaglia, Gabriella Dutto, Emanuele Costa and Emma Rabino Massa (p. 29-32) A Comparison of Conventional or Plane Radiography versus Computer- ized Radiography in Paleoimaging Applications. – Gerald Conlogue, Tania Blyth, Jiazi Li and Ronald Beckett (p. 33-36) Egyptian Mummies and Radiology: A Closer Link. – Paola Cosmacini - and Patrizia Piacentini (p. 37 44) Nicotine in Hair Samples of Pre-Columbian Mummies – Proof of Why Ancient Glacier Mummies are so Special: the Ingesta are Encoded Consumption or Artifact? – Frank Musshoff, Wilfried Rosendahl and Diaries and Maps. – James H. Dickson (p. 45-50) Burkhard Madea (p. 121-125) Detection and Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in 18th The ROM / UWO Mummy Project: a Microcosm of Progress in Mummy Century Hungarians with Pulmonary and Extra-pulmonary Tuberculosis. Research. – Andrew J. Nelson, Rethy Chhem, Ian A. Cunningham Saul – Helen D. Donoghue, Ildikó Pap, Ildikó Szikossy and Mark Spigelman N. Friedman, Greg Garvin, Gayle Gibson, Patrick V. Granton, David (p. 51-56) W. Holdsworth, Stephanie Holowka, Fred Longstaffe, Victoria Lywood, Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Manchester Elliot Smith Skulls. – Ngan Nguyen, Roberta Shaw, Mark Trumpour, Andrew D. Wade and - Roger Forshaw and Angelique Corthals (p. 57-62) Christine D. White (p. 127 132) Dual-energy Computed Tomography Automated Bone Identification Complete Sequencing of the Mitochondrial Genome of Ancient Human Volume 1 in Ancient Egyptian Mummies. – Saul N. Friedman, Andrew J. Nelson, Mummies. – Luca Ermini, Cristina Olivieri, Ermanno Rizzi, Giorgio Patrick V. Granton, David W. Holdsworth, Rethy Chhem and Ian A. Corti, Raoul Bonnal, Stefania Luciani, Isolina Marota, Gianluca De - June 2011 Cunningham (p. 63-68) Bellis, Martin Richards and Franco Rollo (p. 133 138) 184 pp., 23 coloured and 78 black-and-white figures, 20 tables Experimental Archaeology for the Interpretation of Taphonomy related Where Have All the Plant Foods Gone? The Search for Refined Dietary to Bog Bodies: Lessons learned from two Projects undertaken a Decade Reconstruction from Chinchorro Mummies. – Karl J. Reinhard, Sara ISBN 978-3-89937-137-6 - apart. – Heather Gill-Frerking and Colleen Healey (p. 69-74) LeRoy-Toren and Bernardo Arriaza (p. 139 151) Guest Editor Parasite Eggs found in Korean Mummies. – Min Seo, Chang Seok Oh and Think about the Children: An Extraordinary Peruvian Mummy from Dong Hoon Shin (p. 75-81) the Collection of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim, Germany. Dario Piombino-Mascali, European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano, – Wilfried Rosendahl, Anna-Maria Begerock, Heather Gill-Frerking and Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, Italy. Use of 3D Virtual Reconstruction for Pathological Investigation and Facial Robert Hoppa (p. 153-158) Reconstruction of an 18th Century Mummified Nun from Hungary. – Ágnes E-mail: [email protected] Kustár, Ildikó Pap, Zsófia Végvári, Lilla Alida Kristóf, György Pálfi, Kinga Humidity- and Temperature-Related Preservation Challenges for the - Karlinger, Balázs Kovács and Ildikó Szikossy (p. 83-93) Iceman. – Vito C. Fernicola and Marco Samadelli (p. 159 164) This first issue of the “Yearbook of Mummy Studies” reflects some Hair Analysis: a Tool for Identifying Pathological and Social Informa- Age Estimation by 3D CT Scans of the Borremose Woman, a Danish of the diversity seen in the discipline, while uniting mummy tion. – Natalie C. McCreesh, Andrew P. Gize, John Denton and A. Rosalie Bog Body. – Chiara Villa, Maria Møller Rasmussen and Niels Lynnerup - studies with a strong common goal – the application of scientific David (p. 95-98) (p. 165 169) research methods for the study of mummies. In this issue, 26 - Acauã: CT Scanning a Mummified Body from Gentio II Cave, Minas Facial Analysis of Preserved Bodies. – Caroline Wilkinson (p. 171 180) papers by authors from 14 countries discuss aspects of methods Gerais, Brazil Debra. – K. Meier, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Bernardo Assessment of the State of Preservation of Keratin Material found with of anthropogenic and spontaneous mummification; conservation Tessarolo, Gláucia Aparecida Malerba Sene and Laura Piedade Ribeiro the Iceman in Comparison to other Mummy Hairs. – Gabriele Wortmann and display; research methodology; biochemical and macroscopic da Silva (p. 99-107) and Franz-Josef Wortmann (p. 181-184) dietary analyses; medical imaging and three-dimensional recon- The Interplay of DNA and Lipid Biomarkers in the Detection of Tuber- struction; hair analysis; taphonomy; experimental archaeology; culosis and Leprosy in Mummies and other Skeletal Remains. – David E. Volume 2 (2012) will include a special section on paleopathology and ancient DNA of mummies from South America, Minnikin, Gurdyal S. Besra, Oona Y-C. Lee, Mark Spigelman and Helen “Ice Mummies” Egypt, Oceania, Europe and Asia. These papers were originally D. Donoghue (p. 109-114) - presented March 19 21, 2009, during the First Bolzano Mummy Synchrotron Mid-infrared Analysis of the Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi Ancient Find more information and order online at Congress: Mummies and Life Sciences, held at the EURAC-Institute Remains found in a Glacier in Canada. – Colleen R. Christensen, Mike for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy. Jackson, Jacksy Zhao, Wayne Vogl and Maria Victoria Monsalve (p. 115-119) www.pfeil-verlag.de.
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