Chincha people put their dead back together after colonisers disturbed graves when looting silver and gold, research says
Invasion. Disease. Death. The 16th-century Europeans arriving inBut they did not only pillage the living. They also looted graves.
“Then local peoples, Chincha peoples, are coming back, seeing this, and trying to put their dead back together.” The study reveals that the threaded vertebrae were found inside or outside large elaborate tombs known as chullpas, often on the surface, while the practice was applied to the remains of adults and juveniles.
The team say their hypothesis is supported by the finding that the vertebrae were often threaded on to the reeds out of their anatomical order, and were already separated from each other when the threaded posts were created.Bongers said the study showed that even though the body parts are no longer biologically living, they continue to have social lives.
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