Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies

Chamberlain, Andrew T.; Pearson, Michael Parker

ISBN 10: 0714127558 / ISBN 13: 9780714127552

Published by British Museum Press, 2001

About this Item

1st edition hardback, 2001. Original pictorial dustjacket VG. Green cloth gilt as new. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. 89 black & white and 14 colour illustrations. 207 pages.

Seller Inventory # ABE-18998018719

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714127558
• ISBN 13: 9780714127552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Extensively illustrated with the haunting images of many of the cases discussed, "Earthly Remains" is a compelling book that should appeal to everyone's sense of mystery in the history and origins of our ancestors.

About the Author

Andrew T. Chamberlain, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of Sheffield, is author of Human Remains in the Interpreting the Past series. Michael Parker Pearson is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield and a specialist in funerary archaeology. His publications include Bronze Age Britain and 'Mortuary Analysis' in the Oxford Companion to Archaeology.