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Gleanings from the Ice Age Man, Jun 2 2004
This review is from: Human Mummies: A Global Survey of their Status and the Techniques of Conservation (Hardcover)
Remember the excitement in the early 1990s about the frozen man found in the Alps? The "Man the the Ice". He had laid there since the last Ice Age. It was a precious opportunity for scientists to investigate human remains from that period, with clothing and tissue present and amenable to analysis.
This book is a partial summary of those efforts. (The third volume.) It actually spans analyses done on corpses found all over the world. These might have been deliberately or accidentally preserved, by various means. Discussions are made about the relative efficacies of those methods, from our standpoint, centuries or millenia hence; in terms of how much has been left for us to study.
The motivating event was that Ice Age man. As the book makes clear, from him, we have found much about human life and capabilities in that era.
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