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The Ice Maiden : Inca mummies, mountain gods, and sacred sites in the Andes

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The Ice Maiden : Inca mummies, mountain gods, and sacred sites in the Andes

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Peru -- Mount Ampato (Arequipa), Inka -- Peru -- Anden -- Mumie -- Ausgrabung -- Geschichte, Anden -- Peru -- Inka -- Mumie -- Ausgrabung -- Geschichte, Incas -- Peru -- Ampato, Mount (Arequipa) -- Antiquities, Inca Ice Maiden (Ice mummy), Incas -- Peru -- Ampato, Mount (Arequipa) -- Rites and ceremonies, Ice mummies -- Peru -- Ampato, Mount (Arequipa), Juanita (Momie des glaces), Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Ampato, Mount (Arequipa), Momies des glaces -- Pérou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa), Incas -- Pérou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa) -- Antiquités, Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Pérou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa), Incas -- Pérou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa) -- Rites et cérémonies, Excavations (Archaeology), Antiquities, Ice mummies, Incas -- Rites and ceremonies, Incas -- Antiquities, Ausgrabung -- Peru -- Anden -- Inka -- Mumie -- Geschichte, Mumie -- Peru -- Anden -- Inka -- Ausgrabung -- Geschichte, Ampato, Mont (Arequipa, Pérou) -- Antiquités, Ampato, Mount (Arequipa, Peru) -- Antiquities, Incas -- Perou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa) -- Antiquites, Momies des glaces -- Perou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa), Incas -- Perou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa) -- Rites et ceremonies, Fouilles (Archeologie) -- Perou -- Ampato, Mont (Arequipa), Ampato, Mont (Arequipa, Perou) -- Antiquites
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Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society
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Internet Archive
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English
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855.1M
xiii, 384 pages : 24 cm

National Geographic explorer Johan Reinhard chronicles his high-altitude archaeological adventures in the Andes, focusing on the 1995 discovery of the Incan Ice Maiden, sacrificed five hundred years earlier, and the 1999 find of three Inca children on Llullaillaco, frozen in a state of near perfection

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-361) and index

Discovery on Ampato -- Return of the maiden -- Extreme archaeology -- Mummies and media -- The mountains of power -- Juanita's journey --Peaks, storms, and sarita -- Earth mother, mountain father -- Misti's children -- Quehuar's headless mummy -- Mountain of dreams -- Past perfect

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