Maternal mortality in pre-Columbian Indi
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Bernardo Arriaza; Marvin Allison; Enrique Gerszten
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Article
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1988
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A study of female mummies representing seven pre-Columbian Andean populations of Arica, Chile, dating from 1300 B.C. (Azapa phase) to A.D. 1400 (Gentilar phase), disclosed that 18 (14% of the total) had died from childbirth-complicated death (CCD). The majority of these individuals appear to have di