'Incan girl who has been frozen for 500 yrs'

[madrchsod]

there`s no reason for me to comment and you will see why

http://differentphotos4you.blogspot.ca/2013/07/incan-girl-who-had-been-frozen-for-500.html

[Arctic Dave]

1. Is this real?

The level of preservation is remarkable.

[madrchsod]

3. thin cold moisture free air in the andies mountains.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Very real

and totally amazing.

[Scuba]

2. I was married to her for three decades.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I absolutely KNEW someone would have to say that.

Somehow, I'm not surprised…

[Judi Lynn]

4. I hope it was part of their ritual to give the victims a loaded drink,

to ease them to sleep, keep them from suffering. That would be the least they could do for them.

The child looks peaceful, as if she had simply gone to sleep and stayed there 500 years.

Of course her face has contusions from the ravages of time, but the overall image does seem amazingly lifelike, and hopefull not terrified.

It does bring tears to the eyes to see her: she looks phenomenally current, like a real kid.

May she have rested in peace throughout.

[Judi Lynn]

5. The “Llullaillaco Maiden” Was Sedated at Time of Death

The “Llullaillaco Maiden” Was Sedated at Time of Death
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

(Andrew S. Wilson, Photography by Johan Reinhard)

YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND—An analysis of the Llullaillaco Maiden’s long, braided hair suggests that the 13-year-old girl’s diet changed from mostly potatoes to more animal protein and maize in the last year of her life, and that her intake of coca and alcohol began to increase at about the same time. The two drugs were also found in the hair of the two small children whose mummies were found near the Maiden on Argentina’s Llullaillaco Volcano. Their hair, however, is much shorter and so cannot provide as much information. The three had been left to die of exposure in small shrines on the mountain more than 500 years ago in an Incan sacrificial ritual known as capacocha. Andrew Wilson of the University of Bradford thinks that the Maiden may have been sedated in the weeks leading up to her sacrifice and at the time of her death. In fact, radiological scans reveal coca leaves in her mouth.

(Images at link)

http://www.archaeology.org/news/1136-130730-argentina-llullaillaco-maiden-coca-alcohol

[a la izquierda]

8. I wonder why this is making the news today?

She's been on display since 2007. I show a documentary about her and her two younger compatriots everytime I teach my native civilizations course.


(This is not a slight at you or anything, I'm just curious why this popped up now)