500 years old child
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Topic: 500 years old child
Posted By: Guests
Subject: 500 years old child
Date Posted: 15-Jul-2007 at 01:34
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The Andes region of Peru, Bolivia and neighbouring countries is plenty of ancient artifacts and mummies. But perhaps no one is more impressive that the frozen body of a child found in the top of mountain "El Plomo", just besides my home city, Santiago. The child was sacrificed to the gods by freezing in an Inca ceremony of the 15th century, decades before the Spaniards arrived. It was discovered in the 20th century and since them kept in a freezer. The six years old child carried his toys and other curiosities, like a llama of gold, in a style you can still buy today in any tourist shop in Latin America. He had a hair style that curiosly is in fashion in African Americans today, but that existed in the Americans since thousand of years ago.
The tragedy of that small child at least as served us as a window to see the past. We have there a real pre-contact Amerindian, exactly as they looked before the European invasion. It is something really amazing when you think about it.
The mummy
 Full article:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/mummies/high1.html - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/mummies/high1.html
Pinguin
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Posted By: elenos
Date Posted: 25-Jul-2007 at 06:29
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Very interesting. Thanks pinquin.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 08-Sep-2007 at 22:00
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Another mummy of an Inca sacrifice that is in exibit in Argentina:
SALTA, Argentina (AP) -- Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes.
   Hundreds of people packed a museum in Salta, Argentina, to see "la Doncella" -- Spanish for "the Maiden" -- a 15-year-old girl whose remains were found in 1999 in an icy pit on Llullaillaco volcano, along with a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy. Scientists believe the so-called Children of Llullaillaco were sacrificed more than 500 years ago in a ceremony marking the annual corn harvest. Dressed in fine clothes and given corn alcohol to put them to sleep, the victims were then left to die at an elevation of 22,080 feet. "Just this morning we have had more than 700 people come see the exhibit, and we had hundreds yesterday when it opened," High Mountain Archaeological Museum director Gabriel Miremont said on Thursday. The mummy is kept in a chamber that pumps chilled air through a low-oxygen atmosphere, simulating the subfreezing conditions where it was found. The other two children are being studied and not on display. Seated with her legs bent and her arms resting on her stomach, the Maiden's remains are still adorned with a gray shawl and bone and metal ornaments. Scientists say her face was daubed with red pigment and around her mouth they found flecks of coca leaf, which is chewed by highland Indians to blunt the effects of altitude. The Children of Llullaillaco were found at the highest elevation ever discovered for sacrificial victims of the former Inca empire, which ran along the Andes from present-day northern Argentina to Peru. Several Indian groups waged a losing campaign to prevent the remains from going on display, arguing that the mummies should be buried or at least kept from public view. The exhibit is a "great mistake," said Miguel Suarez, a representative of the Calchaquies valley tribes in and around Salta. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/08/mummy.maiden.ap/index.html - CNN.com |