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Rescue Archaeology of the Inca Mummy on Mount Quehuar, Argentina
(Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, 2005-12)
Over five hundred years ago the Incas carried out dramatic ceremonies on mountain summits, many of which were over 6,000 meters high. The most important offerings made at these sites involved human sacrifices. On Mount ...
Overview of the Inca frozen mummies from Mount Lullaillaco (Argentina)
(Equinox Publishing, 2014-01)
Three frozen bodies belonging to a young woman and two infants were found at an elevation of 6.715 meters (22,100 ft.) above sea level, on the summit of volcano Llullaillaco, in the Andes of northwestern Argentina. The ...
Frozen mummies and the archaeology of high mountains in the construction of andean identity
(Berghahn Books, 2017)
The importance of the mummies to the definition of Andean identity could remain unperceived, or could remain difficult to understand, as it comes from foreign cultural contexts or belief systems. Familiarity with the dead ...
Frozen mummies from Andean mountaintop shrines: bioarchaeology and ethnohistory of Inca human sacrifice
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)
This study will focus on frozen mummies of sacrificial victims from mounts Llullaillaco (6739 m), Quehuar (6130 m), El Toro (6160 m), and the Aconcagua massif. These finds provide bioarchaeological data from mountaintop ...
Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
(Linden Museum Stuttgart, 2015)
Five centuries ago, the highest Andean mountains were climbed by Inca priests for the ritual performance of sacrifices, and the subsequent burial of human victims and associated offering assemblages. Spanish chroniclers ...
Ultrastructural preservation of tissues and their reaction to the infection with trichinella in the El Plomo mummy: muscle fiber ultrastructure and trichinosis/mummy of the Cerro El Plomo
(Wiley, 2017)
The El Plomo mummy was a pre-Columbian Incan child who was found mummified in the Andes Mountains above an altitude of 17,700 feet. In the environment, natural mummification occurred due to low temperatures and strong ...
Paleoparasitological Analysis of Skeletal Muscle Tissue of the Cerro El Plomo Mummy from Chile: Trichinella SP.
(2011)
The Cerro El Plomo mummy is an Inca (1,500 AD) child of about 8,09 years old. The boy was found near the top of Cerro El Plomo, Santiago, in the year 1954 and is now under the care of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, ...
Paleoparasitological Analysis of Skeletal Muscle Tissue of the Cerro El Plomo Mummy from Chile: Trichinella SP.
(2011)
The Cerro El Plomo mummy is an Inca (1,500 AD) child of about 8,09 years old. The boy was found near the top of Cerro El Plomo, Santiago, in the year 1954 and is now under the care of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, ...
La momia inca del nevado de Chuscha (noroeste argentino): resultado preliminar de su estudio
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2018)
Radiologic Evaluation of the Llullaillaco Mummies
(American Roentgen Ray Society, 2003-12)
OBJECTIVE. Our purpose was to determine the imaging findings in three 500-year-old frozen mummies of sacrificial Inca children. MATERIALS AND METHODS. CT, conventional radiography, and dental radiography of Inca mummies ...