Different staining substances were used in decorative and therapeutic tattoos in a 1000-year-old Peruvian mummy

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Therapeutic Tattoos and Ancient Mummies: The Case of theIceman

D. Piombino‐MascaliLars F. Krutak

History

2020

Tattoos have been reported from human remains representing a wide range of cultures and time periods. While the practice of tattooing can be studied using a variety of types of historical evidence,…

Natural mummies from Predynastic Egypt reveal the world's earliest figural tattoos

R. FriedmanD. Antoine M. Mannino

History

2018

The multimodal chemical study of pre-Columbian Peruvian mummies.

Pieter van Dalen LunaL. MajchrzakK. MalekJoanna KuncewiczP. Miśkowiec

Chemistry, History

The Analyst

2020

Data obtained during this study suggest that, in the last centuries before the Inca Empire conquered the Peruvian Central Coast, local societies treated some of their dead in a special manner, covering their bodies with balms composed of many substances that had anti-decay properties and could stop further decomposition of the skin.

Immediate and Sustained Effects of Cobalt and Zinc-Containing Pigments on Macrophages

J. DevcicManon Dussol Bastien Dalzon

Medicine, Materials Science

bioRxiv

2022

Results show that some pigments may not be as inert as previously thought, and describe a system to investigate these effects.

A life less ordinary: analysis of the uniquely preserved tattooed dermal remains of an individual from 19th century France

Martin J. SmithA. StarkieR. SlaterH. Manley

History

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

2021

‘Anthropologies of the Body’ often view the human form as a sort of text, onto which meanings and experiences are inscribed during people’s lives, rendering the body effectively as an artefact of…

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The tattoos of the Tyrolean Iceman: a light microscopical, ultrastructural and element analytical study

M. PabstI. Letofsky-Papst F. Hofer

Materials Science

2009

Deposits of different origin in the lungs of the 5,300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman.

M. PabstF. Hofer

Environmental Science

American journal of physical anthropology

1998

Deposits in the lung of the Late Neolithic Tyrolean Iceman were studied with a combination of different methods of analytical electron microscopy, and vivianite and hydroxyapatite crystals were detected, which seem to have crystallized during his 5,300 years of storage in the high mountains.

5200-Year-Old Acupuncture in Central Europe?

L. DorferM. MoserK. SpindlerF. BahrE. Egarter‐ViglG. Dohr

History, Medicine

Science

1998

Findings raise the possibility that the practice of therapeutically intended acupuncture originated long before the medical tradition of ancient China (approximately 1000 B.C.) and that its geographical origins were Eurasian rather than East-Asian, consistent with far-reaching intercultural contacts of prehistoric mankind.

The Scientific Study of Mummies

A. Aufderheide

Medicine, History

2003

This book discusses the purpose of anthropogenic mummification, Mechanisms of mummisation, and soft tissue paleopathology: diseases of the viscera in relation to animal mummies.

Comparison of DNA and RNA extraction methods for mummified tissues.

N. KonomiEve LebwohlDavid Y. Zhang

Biology, Medicine

Molecular and cellular probes

2002

Results show that 5 M GTC is more efficient of releasing nucleic acids from mummified tissue than proteinase K/detergent, and phenol/chloroform extraction with an additional chloroform step is moreefficient than phenol /chloroforms along.

Raman microscopy : developments and applications

G. TurrellJ. Corset

Physics, Chemistry

1996

G. Turrell, The Raman Effect. G. Turrell, M. Delhaye, and P. Dhamelincourt, Characteristics of Raman Microscopy. M. Delhaye, J. Barbillat, J. Aubard, M. Bridoux, and E. Da Silva, Instrumentation. J.…

Early mummies from coastal Peru and Chile

M. Allison

History, Environmental Science

1996

The countries of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile in South America, were the modern countries that occupied the major geographic areas in the Inca Empire. They incorporate all of the extremes of the…

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Determination of inner-shell cross-sections for EELS-quantification

F. Hofer

Chemistry, Physics

1991

Quantitative microanalysis using the EELS technique requires the knowledge of partial scattering cross-sections to relate the measured intensities to the concentrations in the compounds. Partial…

The new cytogenetics: blurring the boundaries with molecular biology

M. SpeicherN. Carter

Biology, Medicine

Nature Reviews Genetics

2005

Cytogenetic analysis now extends beyond the simple description of the chromosomal status of a genome and allows the study of fundamental biological questions, such as the nature of inherited syndromes, the genomic changes that are involved in tumorigenesis and the three-dimensional organization of the human genome.

Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in the Electron Microscope

R. Egerton

Physics

Springer US

1996

Chapter 1. An Introduction to EELS 1.1. Interaction of Fast Electrons with a Solid 1.2. The Electron Energy-Loss Spectrum 1.3. The Development of Experimental Techniques 1.3.1. Energy-Selecting…

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