Social:Aconcagua mummy
Discovery
The Aconcagua mummy was buried inside a semicircular stone structure[1] and found covered in vomit, red pigment, and fecal remains.[2] The body was wrapped in textiles in a style derived from central coastal Peru.[3] Six statuettes were also found buried with the body.[4]
An analysis shows that the boy's diet consisted primarily of maize, quinoa, capsicum, potatoes, and terrestrial meat. A year and a half before his death, his diet became more marine-based.[2] The presence of achiote was also found inside his stomach and colon.[3]
Archaeogenetics
In 2015, DNA was extracted from a 350 mg (5.4 gr) sample from one of his lungs.[4] His mtDNA lineage belongs to a subgroup of Haplogroup C1b, the previously unidentified C1bi (i for Inca).[4] His mtDNA lineage contains 10 distinct mutations from C1b.[4] The researchers determined that Haplogroup C1bi likely arose around 14,300 years ago.[4] An individual from the Wari Empire was found to be a match for this previously unidentified haplogroup.[4][5] In 2018, researchers sequenced the genome of the Aconcagua mummy from a 100 mg (1.5 gr) sample from one of his lungs.[6] His Y-DNA lineage belongs to Haplogroup Q-M3.[7] His specific Y-DNA haplogroup is closest matched by the Choppca people from Huancavelica, a Quechua speaking population, and clusters closer to modern Quechua speaking peoples than Aymara speaking peoples.[7] Overall, the genome of the Aconcagua mummy clusters with modern Andean populations.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ Ceruti 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Faux 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cassman 2007, p. 144.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Gómez-Carballa & Catelli 2015.
- ↑ Wade 2015.
- ↑ Moreno-Mayar et al. 2018, p. 12 (Supplementary).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Salas et al. 2018.
- ↑ Moreno-Mayar et al. 2018, p. 21 (Supplementary).
Bibliography
- Cassman, Vicki (2007). Human Remains: Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 978-0759109551.
- Ceruti, Maria Constanza (2015). "Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice". BioMed Research International 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/439428. ISSN 2314-6133. PMID 26345378.
- Faux, Jennifer L. (2012). "Hail the Conquering Gods: Ritual Sacrifice of Children in Inca Society". Journal of Contemporary Anthropology 3 (1).
- Gómez-Carballa, Alberto; Catelli, Laura (November 12, 2015). "The complete mitogenome of a 500-year-old Inca child mummy". Scientific Reports 5. doi:10.1038/srep16462.
- Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor; Vinner, Lasse; de Barros Damgaard, Peter; de la Fuente, Constanza; Chan, Jeffrey; Spence, Jeffrey P.; Allentoft, Morten E.; Vimala, Tharsika et al. (November 8, 2018b). "Early human dispersals within the Americas". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)). doi:10.1126/science.aav2621. ISSN 0036-8075.
- Salas, Antonio; Catelli, Laura; Pardo-Seco, Jacobo; Gómez-Carballa, Alberto; Martinón-Torres, Federico; Roberto-Barcena, Joaquín; Vullo, Carlos (2018). "Y-chromosome Peruvian origin of the 500-year-old Inca child mummy sacrificed in Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina)". Science Bulletin (Elsevier BV). doi:10.1016/j.scib.2018.08.009. ISSN 2095-9273.
- Wade, Lizzie (12 November 2015). "Inca child mummy reveals lost genetic history of South America". AAAS. http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/11/inca-child-mummy-reveals-lost-genetic-history-south-america. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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