A 3D CT scan of the skull of one of the South American mummies in the new study.Image credit: A-M Begerock, R Loynes, OK Peschel, J Verano, R Bianucci, I Martinez Armijo, M González, AG Nerlich
Posted on 09/21/2022 8:12:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The South American mummies were likely victims of brutal murders...
Behaving more like detectives than academics, a research team scanned three mummified bodies from Chile and Peru in South America to look for clues on how the individuals died. One male victim was hit on the head and stabbed in the back, while another male was likely killed after receiving "massive trauma" to the neck, which included dislocation, the researchers revealed.
...mummified remains can hold secrets that are lost when only bones are preserved. Both the stabbing and the cervical rotational trauma of the dislocated neck would have escaped detection in skeletons, the authors wrote in the study...
Radiocarbon dating revealed that the mummies were between 740 and 1,120 years old, meaning they predated the colonial Spanish period. One male mummy likely came from the Arica culture in what is now northern Chile. He was buried alongside fishing tools, so the researchers determined he likely came from a fishing community. The two other mummies, a male and female, likely came from the Arequipa region in what is now southwestern Peru and were buried wearing materials made out of cotton and hair from llamas or alpacas, as well as viscachas, which are rodents in the chinchilla family.
The researchers used computed tomography (CT) scans to create virtual 3D reconstructions of the bodies, which revealed previously hidden details about their deaths. While the female died of natural causes, both of the male mummies died from extreme intentional violence, according to the research.
Other mummified remains may also have histories waiting to be revealed through modern scanning and reconstruction techniques. "There are dozens of South American mummies which might profit from a similar investigation as done here," Nerlich said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
A 3D CT scan of the skull of one of the South American mummies in the new study.Image credit: A-M Begerock, R Loynes, OK Peschel, J Verano, R Bianucci, I Martinez Armijo, M González, AG Nerlich
I thought we'd have multiple related topics a year or so ago, but couldn't find them.
“ The South American mummies were likely victims of brutal murders...”
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More victims of MAGA extremists, no doubt. /s
:^) If Bushies were responsible, they’d be victims of kinder, gentler murders.
And it matters because??
“Grant Money is Forever”.
More evidence that the most of the violence done to native Americans was done before whites got here.
---Bubba Clintoon
To actual people, it’s of interest. To trolls like you, not so much.
Sounds like a battle took place in the area.
Agreed, otherwise, probably wouldn’t have received a formal burial.
they were killing themselves off before we came along.
They found some mummies. Did they find any daddies?
I apologize.
5.56mm
;^) Somewhere there are woke anthropologists who want both terms banned.
These archeologists know that the folks that used to live there practiced human sacrifice?
Seems like a huge “duh”.
Mummy Lives Matter
Yeah that’s the first thing I thought. Men who died protecting their people. Battle is brutal.
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