Sandweiss Comments in Scientific American Article
The Scientific American has published an article from the journal Nature that includes comments by University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss about mummification in northern Chile and southern Peru 7,000 years ago. Sandweiss, who also is dean and assistant provost of UMaine graduate studies, said a lack of current evidence makes it difficult to prove a Chilean ecologist’s theory that favorable environmental conditions at the time resulted in population growth, which led to the artificial preservation of corpses.
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