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    Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice

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    2013
    Author
    Wilson, Andrew S.
    Brown, Emma L.
    Villa, C.
    Lynnerup, N.
    Healey, Andrew R.
    Ceruti, M.C.
    Reinhard, J.
    Previgliano, C.H.
    Araoz, F.A.
    Diez, J.G.
    Taylor, Timothy F.
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    Keyword
    Adolescent
    ; Age factors
    ; Archaeology
    ; Argentina
    ; Burial
    ; Ceremonial behaviour
    ;Child
    ; Chromatography
    ; Coca
    ; Ethanol
    ; Female
    ; Hair
    ; History
    ; Humans
    ; Indians; South America
    ; Male
    ; Mummies; Radiography
    Tandem Mass Spectrometry
    ; Tomography; X-Ray
    ; REF 2014
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    Abstract
    Examination of three frozen bodies, a 13-y-old girl and a girl and boy aged 4 to 5 y, separately entombed near the Andean summit of Volcan Llullaillaco, Argentina, sheds new light on human sacrifice as a central part of the Imperial Inca capacocha rite, described by chroniclers writing after the Spanish conquest. The high-resolution diachronic data presented here, obtained directly from scalp hair, implies escalating coca and alcohol ingestion in the lead-up to death. These data, combined with archaeological and radiological evidence, deepen our understanding of the circumstances and context of final placement on the mountain top. We argue that the individuals were treated differently according to their age, status, and ritual role. Finally, we relate our findings to questions of consent, coercion, and/or compliance, and the controversial issues of ideological justification and strategies of social control and political legitimation pursued by the expansionist Inca state before European contact.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6238
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    Citation
    Wilson AS, Brown EL, Villa C et al (2013) Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110(33): 13322-13327.
    Link to publisher’s version
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1305117110
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