W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Mummies, bones & body parts /

Wilcox, Charlotte.

Mummies, bones & body parts / Mummies, bones and body parts Charlotte Wilcox. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2000. - 64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60) and index.

The long rest -- Looking after the dead -- How old are they? -- What killed them? -- Who were they? -- What to do with mummies and bones.

Describes the wide variety of human remains, the use and abuse of them, what they reveal about life in the past, and contemporary attitudes toward the dead.

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Mummies--Juvenile literature.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Juvenile literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Juvenile literature.

GN293 / .W56 2000

599.97 WIL