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Category Archives: Mummies

I like my corpses like I like my pretzels. Salted.

March 17, 2016by Kate Meyers Emery 4 Comments

I’ve been reading a lot of interesting food non-fiction books in my sparse free time as a way to relax after long days of dissertation preparation and article writing. I’ve […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mummies, Overviews

Climate Change and the Chinchorro Mummies

March 17, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 9 Comments

The Chinchorro mummies are quite different from the traditional linen-wrapped mummies of Egypt that we often equate this the term ‘mummy’. Recently, these mummies from Chile and Peru have become […]

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Funeral Practices, Mummies

Waiter, there’s a toe in my drink!

September 5, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 8 Comments

The major news article this past week from Yukon, Canada has the amazing headline “Yukon bar patron swallows famous sourtoe, pays fine, leaves town”. To clarify this right from the […]

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Mummies

Interdisciplinary Insight into Incan Child Sacrifice

July 30, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 6 Comments

The hot news today is the recent PNAS publication of the results of an extensive interdisciplinary study to learn more about Incan child sacrifice. For a decade and a half, […]

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Bioarchaeology, Funeral Practices, Mummies

New Morbid Terminology: Grave Wax

October 18, 2012by Kate Meyers Emery 12 Comments

Grave wax is a wax-like organic substance that appears as crumbly and waxy material consisting mostly of saturated fatty acids that appears in certain graves. The color of the wax depends […]

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Bioarchaeology, Mummies

Excavating the Funerary Bundles of Ancón

September 27, 2012by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

The MSU Anthropology department hosted a brown bag featuring Amy Krull, an up and coming scholar in mortuary archaeology from Wayne State University on September 14th. Her presentation was titled […]

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Funeral Practices, Mortuary Sites, Mummies

Diverse Data to Determine Pre-Dynastic Diet

August 14, 2012by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

A new article by Gamza and Irish (2012) from the Journal of Osteoarchaeology combines all the potential evidence of diet from the Predynastic site of Hierkonpolis in Egypt to determine […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries, Methods, Mummies

Excavations at Amara West

January 31, 2011by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

Amara West is an ongoing excavation done through the British Museum in Sudan that has been taking place since 2008. It is located in Upper Nubia, and dates from 1500 […]

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Cemeteries, Digital Archaeology, Mortuary Sites, Mummies, Tombs

The Soap Man and Lady Revisited

January 16, 2011by Kate Meyers Emery 9 Comments

A new type of mummy was found in the late 19th century… in Philadelphia. The unexpected find was unearthed by accident during a construction project in 1875. There are different […]

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Mummies

How not to send your mummy overseas

October 28, 2010by Kate Meyers Emery Leave a comment

Earlier this week, a woman was arrested for trying to send a Peruvian mummy to France by mail. The package was intercepted in Bolivia, and the woman detained. She claims […]

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