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Dry human and animal remains — their treatment at the British Museum

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Human Mummies

Part of the book series: The Man in the Ice ((3262,volume 3))

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The richest sources of human and animal material in the British Museum are from Ancient Egypt and a variety of ethnographic cultures.

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  1. Department of Conservation, The British Museum, London, UK

    Ms. Allyson Rae

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  1. Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Konrad Spindler

  2. Institute of Human Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Harald Wilfing

  3. Institute of Prehistoric Alpine Research, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig

  4. Radiological Department II of the University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Dieter zur Nedden

  5. Regional Authorities for Bozen, Bozen, Italy

    Hans Nothdurfter

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Rae, A. (1996). Dry human and animal remains — their treatment at the British Museum. In: Spindler, K., Wilfing, H., Rastbichler-Zissernig, E., zur Nedden, D., Nothdurfter, H. (eds) Human Mummies. The Man in the Ice, vol 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6565-2_4

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