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Mummification and body processingessay 2000 • Murphy, Eileen M.
Early Nomad • Asia > Central Asia
Murphy presents the results of an osteological analysis of 607 Early Nomad remains from the Aymyrlyg cemetery. It appears that defleshing or disarticulating the skeleton was done in cases where the decomposing body would have been, '…both unhygienic ...