The ancient Egyptians & the natural world : flora, fauna & science /

This book explores the interaction between animals, plants, and humans in ancient Egypt. It draws together different aspects of the bioarchaeology of Egypt: flora, fauna, and human remains. These come from sites throughout the country from Alexandria to Aswan, as well as material from museum basemen...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Ikram, Salima (Editor), Kaiser, Jessica (Editor), Porcier, Stéphanie (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2021
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505 0 |a Curatorial Training in Human Remains for the Egyptian Museum, Cairo -- Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna in the Early Dynastic Period at Abydos, Egypt -- Humans and Animals Together in the Journey to the Afterlife -- The Burial in Area R11 under the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II, Luxor, West Thebes -- Italian Archaeological Project -- To Be or Not to Be a Dog Mummy -- How a Metric Study of the Skull Can Inform on Selection Practices Pertaining to Canid Mummification in Ancient Egypt -- Newcomers in the Bestiary -- A Review of the Presence of Lycaon pictus in Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Environment and Iconography -- Dévots et animaux sacrés -- Tuberculosis at Tell-el Amarna -- A Theoretical Exercise in the Economic and Social Effects of Chronic, Terminal Disease in Ancient Egypt -- Burial Practies in the West Delta: Cases from Kom Aziza -- A Structure-from-Motion Pipeline for Bone Morphology 3D Analysis -- Lions and Science and Whorls, Oh My! -- Human and Faunal Remains in Egypt: A New Department and a New Approach -- Creatures of the Sun, Creatures of the Moon: Animal Mummies from Lisbon's National Archaeological Museum -- Brief Notes about a Mummified Crocodile from the National Archaeological Museum (MANN) of Naples, Italy -- Venerunt, Viderunt, Vicerunt: The Roman Conquest and the Non-Elite -- Faunal Remains at the Causeway of Sahura -- Interactions between Teeth and Their Environment: A Study of the Effect on Adult Dental Age Estimation -- Discovery of an Unexpected Textile Fiber in a Fish Mummy from the Musée des Confluences (Lyon) Collection -- Women's Health Issues Reflected in Case Studies from Theban Tomb 16 -- Analyse des gazelles momifiées de Kom Mereh/Komir (Haute Egypte) conservées au Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France) -- Did Egyptians Eat Donkeys? Reflections from Historical and Archaeological Data -- What I Have Learned: Assumptions Bad, Intersections Good -- Biomolecular Stable Isotope and Carbon-14 Dates of Ancient Egyptian Food Offerings: A Case Study from a Provincial Cemetery of Deir al-Ballas -- Animal Butchering Technology in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt: Textual and Iconographic Evidence for the Shift from Stone to Metal Tools -- Anthropological Study of the Egyptian Mummy from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Using Computed Tomography -- Intentionally Burnt Human Remains from the Kom Ombo Temple Salvage Excavation 
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