Posted on 11/05/2022 5:51:40 AM PDT by bani
Thousands of years ago, a child in Peru was sacrificed as part of an ancient ritual, their head severed at the neck and made into a type of trophy.
A new analysis of a single hair plucked from the mummy’s skull reveals that the child consumed a psychoactive cactus prior to execution, as part of the ceremony.
The child’s preserved head was one of 22 human remains associated with the ancient Nazca society examined in a new study; all of these individuals lived during the pre-Hispanic era (3500 B.C. to A.D. 476) and were buried near the southern coast of Peru, where they were excavated during the Nazca Project, a long-running archaeological program that began in 1982.
While scientists are uncertain of the child victim’s sex and age at death, they reported that the child had ingested San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), a prickly plant taken for its “strong hallucinogenic properties” and used by indigenous civilizations of the Americas in traditional medicines and during rituals.
“The trophy head is the first case of the consumption of San Pedro by an individual living on the southern Peruvian coast,” study lead author Dagmara Socha, a doctoral candidate in the Center for Andean Studies at the University of Warsaw in Poland, told Live Science. “It’s also the first evidence that some of the victims who were made into trophy heads were given stimulants before they died.”
For the study, Socha and her team collected samples of individual hairs from four trophy heads, three of which belonged to adults, and from 18 mummies of both adults and children.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-archeology.com ...
Gosh, what a beautiful culture. A moloch on every continent. It's good for the economy, I've been told...
The racist Christopher Columbus- interfering with that utopian empire...
Ignorant savages! Who did they think they were- DEMOCRATS?
And as the recent story on free republic cites, 10 out of 10 of the worlds most dangerous cities are south of the border
If they listed the 20 most dangerous cities I’m sure the remaining 10 would be north of the border all run by Democrats
AH, those wonderful ancient cultures that are worshiped so much by today’s liberals who just hate our Christian-based civilization so much that they think a bloody child-killing culture is the greatest thing.
Yep, just what I was thinking. After the mutiny on the ship the Bounty in 1789 after leaving Tahiti, Captain William Bligh and 18 crew members were set adrift in a 23 foot launch where they had to sail 4000 miles for rescue.
Along the way almost every island the hit to looking for food and water, they were attacked by natives, even killing one crew member. So much for “open borders”. That still goes on to this day. If you land on North Sentinel Island for example near India, the natives WILL kill you.
So....? a person or a group of people actually got paid to “pluck” a hair from an old skull and analyze it? What a gig!
And the lefties say Columbus was bad????
And the lefties say Columbus was bad????
Brutal, ancient cultures with their barbaric sacrificial slaughter of innocents, in desperate attempts to improve their lives. Today, the high priests have to have a medical license.
They can detect drugs taken the day you die from a hair? It seems hair grows a lot slower than it would take for something like that to show up in it.
It sounds like these people were early Democrats
Ping!
Although listing only 8, such a thread appeared just yesterday:
The 8 most dangerous cities in the world according to precise data
...And the ten most dangerous U.S. cities (all Democrat) are listed at post 22.
Thanks Albion Wilde.
Casting pearls before swine and he forgot his sword.
So they rendered the child intoxicated so it couldn’t resist their fiendish murder of it. Nice people. I hope they were all exterminated.
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