Natural sciences and mummies
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Niels Lynnerup [1]
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[1] University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
Dinamarca
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- Localización: Canarias Arqueológica: Arqueología-Bioantropología, ISSN 1888-4059, Nº. 22, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Symposium in memoriam Arthur C. Aufderheide the scientist, the friend ( 1922-2013)), págs. 37-39
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Art Aufderheide saw mummies as unique archaeological finds, with the implications of that view, including ethical issues, but he also approached them as a natural science based doctor would approach a patient ora medical diagnostic challenge. Namely that the advances in natural sciences should be brought to bear; and conversely, that nat ural science, and heaH:h science, could learn from these studies and the past.
This presentat ion will draw on the natural scientific developments in mummy studies since the first Mummy Congress in 1992. While stable isotope analyses was really being applied full scale, other issues in advanced imaging and aDNA were only just beginning to be applied.
Of course the presentation will also be somewhat personal, as I will dwell on sorne of the encounters I had with Art, and in that I will underscore the huge impact Art has had on our meetings and our scientific research.
