Free Download Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL1JXD9Y | 2023 | 13 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Christopher Heaney
Narrator: Christian Barillas
When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how "ancient Peruvians" became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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