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12,000-year-old smoked mummies reveal world’s earliest evidence of human mummification

  • Written by Hsiao-chun Hung, Senior Research Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
12,000-year-old smoked mummies reveal world’s earliest evidence of human mummificationA middle-aged woman, discovered in a tightly flexed position at the Liyupo site in southern China, preserved through smoked mummification.Hsiao-chun Hung

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new...

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