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DOCUMENT Citation Only Serge Lemaitre. Caroline Polet. Caroline Tilleux. Aurore Mathys. Pauline Kirgis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Royal Museums of Art and History preserves seven complete or partial Andean mummies. Three are still surrounded by textiles in the form of funerary bundles. Four others lacked textile remains but were probably also held up by ties and fabric. For the museum and for Belgium, one of them is very important because he was made famous thanks to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Julison. Randy Haas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnography demonstrates entomophagy, or consumption of insects, to be a relatively common practice around the world. Despite such prevalence, insect foods are discussed rarely in the archaeological literature, presumably due to Western biases, which may acknowledge the presence of edible insects but refrains from considering them a viable food resource....