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The Plomo Mummy (also known as Boy of El Plomo, El Plomo Mummy, or La Momia del Cerro El Plomo in Spanish) is the well preserved remains of an Incan child found on Cerro El Plomo near Santiago, Chile in 1954.[1][2] It was discovered by Guillermo Chacón Carrasco, Jaime Ríos Abarca, and Luis Gerardo Ríos Barrueto.[3] The mummy was brought to the attention of Grete Mostny at the Chilean National Museum of Natural History; she later proved instrumental in the museum's acquisition of the specimen.[4] The Plomo Mummy was the first notable frozen mummy discovery of high-altitude human sacrifice by the Incas,[5][6] a practice called qhapaq hucha.
The mummy is curated by the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile, where a replica of the mummy is on public display. In 2003, histological examinations of the remains revealed the presence of a primitive species of the Trichinella parasite.
See also
- Children of Llullaillaco
- Mummy Juanita
- Ötzi the Iceman
References
- ↑ Horne, P. D.; Kawasaki, S. Q. (1984). "The Prince of El Plomo: A paleopathological study". Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 60 (9): 925–31. PMID 6391593.
- ↑ Tierney, Patrick (1990). The highest altar: unveiling the mystery of human sacrifice. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140139747.[page needed]
- ↑ Fuenzalida, Humberto (1959). "Historia del hallazgo". Boletin Del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural XXVII: 4. http://www.mnhn.cl/613/articles-71052_archivo_01.pdf.
- ↑ Mouat, Francisco (September 2014). "Breve Biografía de la Doctora Grete Mostny (1914 -1991)". Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Chile. http://www.mnhn.cl/613/articles-5237_archivo_01.pdf.
- ↑ Ceruti, Maria Constanza (2015). "Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice". BioMed Research International 2015: 439428. doi:10.1155/2015/439428. PMID 26345378.
- ↑ Clark, Liesl (November 24, 1998). "Ice Mummies of the Inca". https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/ice-mummies-inca.html.
Further reading
- Aufderheide, Arthur C. (2010). The scientific study of mummies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521177351. http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5736925/?site_locale=en_US. Retrieved 24 July 2012. (p. 126, 157)
- Wheeler, Margaret (1967). History Was Buried: A Source Book of Archaeology. Bbs Budget Book Svs. ISBN 978-0883652855. https://books.google.com/books/about/History_was_buried.html?id=hoFlvymI9dIC. (p. 381)
- Besom, Thomas (2017). "Inka Sacrifice and the Mummy of Salinas Grandes". Latin American Antiquity 21 (4): 399–422. doi:10.7183/1045-6635.21.4.399.
- Héctor, Rodríguez; Omar, Espinoza-Navarro; González, Mercedes; Mario, Castro (2017). "Ultrastructural preservation of tissues and their reaction to the infection with trichinella in the El Plomo mummy: Muscle fiber ultrastructure and trichinosis/mummy of the Cerro El Plomo". Microscopy Research and Technique 80 (8): 898–903. doi:10.1002/jemt.22879. PMID 28475269.
- Horne, Patrick D (1996). "The Prince of El Plomo: a frozen treasure". Human Mummies. pp. 153–7. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6565-2_15. ISBN 978-3-7091-7352-7.
- Reinhard, Johan; Ceruti, María Constanza (2010). Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World's Highest Archaeological Sites. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. ISBN 978-1-931745-77-2.
- Lane, Kevin (2012). "Inca". in Insoll, Timothy. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion. pp. 571–84. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232444.013.0037. ISBN 978-0-19-923244-4.
- Fuenzalida, H. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Historia del hallazgo" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 3–7. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-63967.html.
- Mostny, G. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Estado de conservación del conjunto arqueológico" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 9–13. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-63968.html.
- Jeldes, F.; Prunes, L.; Merello, R.; Hoces, A.; Mosella, L.; Pizzi, T.; Tobar, T.; Vargas, Alfredo B. et al. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Protocolos de Antropología Física" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 15–28. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-63969.html.
- Mostny, G.; Briinner, A.; Oberhauser, F.; Fuhrmann, P.; Gaillard, M. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Protocolos de Arqueología" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 29–81. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-64207.html.
- Krakl, T. L.; González, F. O. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, El cerro El Plomo" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 83–107. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-63971.html.
- Mostny, G. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Los Incas en Chile" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 108–12. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-63972.html.
- Mostny, G. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Conclusiones" (in es). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 27: 114–9. http://publicaciones.mnhn.cl/668/w3-article-63973.html.
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