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Cultures that practiced A type of Embalming:
- Ethiopians
- Gaunches
- Babylonians, Persians & Syrians
- Peruvians
- North American Indians
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Ethiopians
- used a form of body preservation similar to Egyptians
- Embalming technique
- but no record of why this type of preparation procedure was performed by them
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Ehiopian Embalming technique:
- Evisceration
- Desiccation-drying in the sun
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Gaunces
aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands around B.C., during life each person wouldprepare a sepulcher from the skin of goats, which is used to encase their remains at death,embalmers were of both sexes, with each perfomring the embalming on resepctive sex(men & women embalmed women)
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Gaunches technique:
- Evisceration
- 1. abdominal incision for evisceration was made with a flint stone knife called a "Tacoma"
- 2. Desiccation
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The mummies, which histoians consider perfect specimens, were called
"X-axis"
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Technique of Preservations with Baylonians, Persians & Syrians;
- by immersing the body in eathen jars, filled with honey & or wax
- this protected the body from air & other elements, preventing decomposition
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Peruvians
- information about the care of the dead comes as a result of the Spanish conquest of Peru in early 16th century
- the climate of this area was the major factor involved in preservation
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Peruvian technique of body preparation for disposal:
- 1. body placed in a squatting position, wit knees under the chin & the arms across the chest
- 2. coins or small pieces of gold, silver or copper were placed in the mouth of the deceased
- 3. body is wrapped in cloth of either cotton or wool, then bound by crude ropes
- 4. the outside covering consisted of cotton paks surrounded by cocoa matting, to form parcel resembling a rope basket
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North American Indians
- what we know is based on the writing of Beverly & his book "The History of Virginia"
- no proof exisits of any claims that embalming was practiced
- they were however, religious in the care of the dead (especially chiefs or rulers)
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North American Indians technique for preperations of the body:
- 1.body is split down the back, then carefully skinned
- 2.all meat would be picked from the bones leaving only sinews (tendons) attached to hold the skeleton together
- 3.skin in the mean time is immersed in oils for presevation
- 4. when fully dry, skin would be replace on the bones & spaces filled w/ fine sand.
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North American Indians methods of final disposition:
- Earth Burial
- or Tree Burial
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North American Indians Earth Burial:
- * tribes refered to, as "Mound Builders" erected huge earthen mounds over their dead in much the same manner that Egyptians built mastabas & pyramids
- * St. Louis, Missouri is known as the Mound City, because it's located on one of thse mounds
- * buried w/ the remains of all the deceased possessed (horses, pets, furnishings, weapons, etc.)
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North American Indians Tree Burial:
- prepared body would be placed on a platform erected in a tree or atop four tall poles
- bodies were placed in the high positions in an attempt to keep predators from destroying it prematurely
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