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Karl Reinhard, assistant anthropology professor, speaks at Bessey Hall Wednesday night.
Mummies preserve history
By Doug Kerns
Staff Reporter : " 7
Karl Reinhard unwrapped a dusty
-subject Wednesday night at Bessey
Hall.
The assistant anthropology profes
sor addressed “Mummies, Disease and
Mortuary Practice: Examples from
the South American Andes.”
Reinhard has been part of an exca
vation of Moquegua Valley in south
ern Peru, where he studied mummies
from the Chirabaya culture of almost
1,000 years ago.
His talk was the first in a series
offered by the Archaeological Insti
tute of America.
Cultures in the area thrived in or
near fertile river valleys in the other
wise hostile terrain of Peru and Chile,
Reinhard said. -
A great deal of information about
the culture of these ancient peoples
can be obtained by studying their
mummies, the preparation of their
dead.
Modem investigators are more
careful than archaeologists of the past,
Reinhard said, when the mummies
often would be destroyed after the
autopsy.
“There is anew focus on conserva
tion of mummies in the archeological
community,” he said.
Through their mummies, the spiri
tuality of the dead in a culture could be
carried on through succeeding gen
erations.
“All of this deals with honoring the
dead,” Reinhal'd said.
Mummification helped preserve the
dead in a recognizable form accord
ing to the cosmology of the survivors,
he said. Those cultures often brought
offerings to the corpses; some may
have eyen been preserved in upright
fashion for use in ceremonies.
• “Intentional mummification often
involved some type of interaction with
the corpse,” Reinhard said.
Reinhard contrasted three sepa
rate and diverse indigenous cultures
of Chile and Peru^hat^aeticed mum
mification.
The Moche culture,'which ended
about 700 A.D., had a complex,
heirarchical society, and their mum
, mies often were buried in chambers
with intricate artifacts.
The Chinchorro culture, which
ended about 4000 B.C., was a hunter/
gatherer society that practiced mum
mification. Reinhard said this was
rare among primitive peoples, and
may be because the Chinchorro stayed
in their fertile estuary environmenf
for long periods of time.
The Chirabaya culture offered a
socio-economic middle ground be
tween the other two cultures. The
Chirabaya .were agriculturalists and
llama herders.
Reinhard is particularly interested
“Intentional
mummification often
involved some type of.
interaction with the
corpse”
KARL REINHARP
assistant anthropology professor
in the intestinal contents of the mum
mies, and how that data reflects their
way of life. 1
“It’s good, gut-level data,” he said.
Also of interest to Reinhard is that
through these mummies, scientists can
explore the origins of the various dis
eases of ancient peoples, including
tuberculosis. • \
A major problem archeologists ^
face, Reinhard said, is the desecration
of buried .remains and the
vandalization of the mummies after
excavation. Mummies are sometimes
reburied in the hope that ground con
ditions will preserve them, Reinhard
said. * .
Reinhard said he believed these
ancient people knew thatburyingtheir
dead in one of the hottest, dryest cli
mates in the world would mummify
the remains.
NRol'l, ISO topics at senate meeting
By Kasey Kerber.
Staff Reporter
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska discussed
changes to the NRolUystem and the
International Students’ Olympics at
its meeting
Wednesday night.
Several issues
initially discussed
at last week’s
meeting were up
dated by ASUN
President
Shawntell
Hurtgen. Among them was the push
to have instructors’ names listed ear
lier on the NRoll system.
“Academic Affairs has told me
that they couldn’t get all names on'
the NRoll system,” Hurtgen said.
“What they did tell pie they could
do is send a letter to the deans of
each of- the colleges. This letter
would urge the deans to assign in
structors sooner.”
Hurtgen also discussed making the
colleges’ class waiver forms more
universal. Some colleges’ existing
waiver forms are ^hort and simple,
while others’ are long and tedious.
A new issue on the agenda was the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s ac
creditation. The university renews its
accreditation once every 10 years. UNL
faces renewal in April 1997.
- “To be ready for the accreditation,
we will have to start organizing com
mittees now,” said Hurtgen. “Since it
will take two years for a student com
mittee to finalize its criterion report,
we are encouraging sophomore and
junior senators to become part of ac
creditation committees.”
Muhammad Javaid, ASUN’s inj
ternational student subcommittee
chairman, also asked for the senate’
help to get more students involved
in the International Students’ Olymj
pics:
“Previously it was open only to
foreign students,” Javaid said. “But
we wanted the Olympics to live up to
their name and truly be more of an
international event.”
The Olympics will run Sept. 17-30.
They will feature competition in most
major sports. Events will be held in
the Campus Recreation Center, on the
tennis courts behind Smith Residence
Hall and on the athletic fields behind3
Abel Hall. . :
Nebraska Book Company changes owners
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska Book Company,
which operates a nationwide chain of
retail bookstores, including the Ne
braska Bookstore at 13 th and Q streets,
has been sold to Olympus Partners, a
•private equity firmin Stamford, Conn.
Terms of the deal were not dis
closed.
Mark Oppegard, president of Ne
braska Book Company, said the
. . +
change would not affect the company ’ s
operations.
“It’s going to be business as usual
for us,” he said.
Oppegard said there would be no
personnel changes as a result of the
deal. Customers shouldn’t notice any
thing different, he said.
“Our mission statement, as always,
is to provide the best service as pos
sible to our customers,” Oppegard
said.
. < . • *
Jim Cornell, general manager of
Nebraska Bookstore, reiterated:
Oppegard’s remarks.
“It’s been just an extremely smooth
transition,” Cornell said, adding that
the company was already in new hands.'
Olympus Partners took control Sept.
1, he said. <
Cornell said Nebraska Bookstore I
would “continue to provide a strong
textbook presence on the University
of Nebraska campuS.”