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Author Barber, E. J. W., 1940-

Title The mummies of Urumchi / Elizabeth Wayland Barber.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  393.30931 B233m    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Adams  393.30931 B233m c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mystery mummies -- A man with ten hats -- Plus three women and a baby -- The "beauty of Loulan" -- The early explorers -- Tokharians and other hairy barbarians -- Hami and Hallstatt -- The oasis hoppers and their kin -- Pulses in the heart of a continent -- Sands of the silk road, sands of time.
Subject Mummies -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Bronze age -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Tarim Basin (China) -- Antiquities.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Antiquities.
ISBN 0965684067 (pbk.)
0393045218

 
    
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