TY - JOUR
T1 - Mummification in Korea and China
T2 - Mawangdui, Song, Ming and Joseon Dynasty Mummies
AU - Shin, Dong Hoon
AU - Bianucci, Raffaella
AU - Fujita, Hisashi
AU - Hong, Jong Ha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Dong Hoon Shin et al.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Over the decades, mummy studies have expanded to reconstruct a multifaceted knowledge about the ancient populations' living conditions, pathologies, and possible cause of death in different spatiotemporal contexts. Mainly due to linguistic barriers, however, the international knowledge of East Asian mummies has remained sketchy until recently. We thus analyse and summarize the outcomes of the studies so far performed in Korea and China in order to provide mummy experts with little-known data on East Asian mummies. In this report, similarities and differences in the mummification processes and funerary rituals in Korea and China are highlighted. Although the historical periods, the region of excavation, and the structures of the graves differ, the cultural aspects, the mechanisms of mummification, and biological evidence appear to be essentially similar to each other. Independently from the way they are called locally, the Korean and Chinese mummies belong to the same group with a shared cultural background.
AB - Over the decades, mummy studies have expanded to reconstruct a multifaceted knowledge about the ancient populations' living conditions, pathologies, and possible cause of death in different spatiotemporal contexts. Mainly due to linguistic barriers, however, the international knowledge of East Asian mummies has remained sketchy until recently. We thus analyse and summarize the outcomes of the studies so far performed in Korea and China in order to provide mummy experts with little-known data on East Asian mummies. In this report, similarities and differences in the mummification processes and funerary rituals in Korea and China are highlighted. Although the historical periods, the region of excavation, and the structures of the graves differ, the cultural aspects, the mechanisms of mummification, and biological evidence appear to be essentially similar to each other. Independently from the way they are called locally, the Korean and Chinese mummies belong to the same group with a shared cultural background.
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U2 - 10.1155/2018/6215025
DO - 10.1155/2018/6215025
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30302339
AN - SCOPUS:85054072272
SN - 2314-6133
VL - 2018
JO - BioMed Research International
JF - BioMed Research International
M1 - 6215025
ER -