[Aztlan] Follow-up on Ancient Skeletons near Machu Picchu

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,
In a follow-up story on the 80 ancient skeletons found in caves near  
Machu Picchu, National Geographic has this additional information;

The sites are called Salapunku and Qhanabamba  and date to 1500 CE.  
Formal excavations of the bodies have not yet begun but will begin  
soon. Funerary wrappings are of vegetable fiber and the ceramics at  
the site are simple suggesting the dead were peasant farmers. Weaving  
baskets, balls of thread, looms and textiles have also been found.  
Later bone analysis will reveal age at death, sex, cause of death,  
diet and perhaps occupation. Finding human remains in this humid area  
is a rare event and not much is known about the population near Machu  
Picchu. These remains will fill in some of the blanks.

National Geographic has the story here with one photo;

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080915-machu-picchu.html

A tiny URL;

http://tinyurl.com/5zbve2


Mike Ruggeri


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