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Joseon dynasty people’s life has been delineated by studies based on the extant historical literature in Korea. Notwithstanding this, over the recent several decades too, archaeologists have investigated the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Joseon period mummies to glean corroborative or corrective data on that specific time period. In the studies, Joseon mummy’s almost-perfect preservation state has surprised anthropologists and attracted the attention of archaeologists, due to the high academic value of the artifacts interred with them. This chapter provides a general overview of the research work on Korean mummies that has been represented in academia.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2017R1D1A1B03030127).
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Shin, D.H., Oh, C.S., Hong, J.H., Shin, M.H., Kim, M.J., Lee, H.J. (2021). Joseon Dynasty Mummies of Korea. In: Shin, D.H., Bianucci, R. (eds) The Handbook of Mummy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3354-9_29
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