Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain

Parker Pearson, Mike; Chamberlain, Andrew; E. Craig, Oliver; Marshall, Peter; Mulville, Jacqui; Smith, Helen; Chenery, Carolyn; J. Collins, Matthew; Cook, Gordon; Craig, G.T.; Evans, Jane; Hiller, Jen; Montgomery, Janet; Schwenninger, Jean‐Luc; Taylor, Gillian; J. Wess, Timothy

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00114486

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Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain

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Authors:

Mike Parker Pearson

Andrew Chamberlain

Oliver E. Craig

Abstract

Ancient Egyptians are thought to have been the only people in the Old World who were practising mummification in the Bronze Age (c. 2200-700 BC). But now a remarkable series of finds from a remote Scottish island indicates that Ancient Britons were performing similar, if less elaborate, practices of...

Subject

Bronze Age

Mainland

Archaeology

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