Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Andrew S. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Emma | * |
dc.contributor.author | Villa, C. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Lynnerup, N. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Healey, Andrew R. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Ceruti, M.C. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Reinhard, J. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Previgliano, C.H. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Araoz, F.A. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Diez, J.G. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Timothy F. | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-28T11:28:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-28T11:28:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.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. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6238 | |
dc.description | No | |
dc.description.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. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | Adolescent | |
dc.subject | Age factors | |
dc.subject | Archaeology | |
dc.subject | Argentina | |
dc.subject | Burial | |
dc.subject | Ceremonial behaviour | |
dc.subject | Child | |
dc.subject | Chromatography | |
dc.subject | Coca | |
dc.subject | Ethanol | |
dc.subject | Female | |
dc.subject | Hair | |
dc.subject | History | |
dc.subject | Humans | |
dc.subject | Indians | |
dc.subject | South America | |
dc.subject | Male | |
dc.subject | Mummies | |
dc.subject | Radiography | |
dc.subject | Tandem Mass Spectrometry | |
dc.subject | Tomography | |
dc.subject | X-Ray | |
dc.subject | REF 2014 | |
dc.title | Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice | |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.type.version | No full-text in the repository | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1305117110 | |
dc.openaccess.status | closedAccess |