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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Llullaillaco VaultCountry: Argentina
NOTE: This site is 79.549 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Salta
Latitude: 24.702S Longitude: 68.548W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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Tomb in Argentina.
The highest archaeological site on earth. This stone tomb lies on the flank of the active Llullaillaco volcano, at over 22,000 feet above sea level. It consists of an undressed stone platform. Within it three children between the ages of 6 and 15 years were given corn alcohol, placed within and sealed there with carefully placed stones.
The ritual entombment of human sacrifices by Andean cultures was described to Spanish chroniclers in the colonial periods of what are now Peru, Chile, and Argentina. They wrote that it was considered an honor for the sacrifices and their relatives to have been chosen and the victims were usually from the nobility. But recent examination of the bodies may indicate that young peasants may have provided both a sacrifice to the gods and a brutal object lesson to conquered peoples.
In some cases the people (usually young women) were killed by garroting or blows prior to their being left in these mountain tombs, although the children at Llullaillaco have no sign of having been put to death prior to being entombed on the mountain side.
The site was excavated in 1999, and due to the modern methods of care taken with both the human remains and the associated finds, they are very possibly the most perfectly preserved remains from the pre-contact New World. The Children of LLullaillacco are now in the Museum of High Altitude Archaeology in Salta, Argentina. Please NOTE: The further links include photographs of the remains.
The location given is for the summit of the volcano, and not specific for the tomb.
Note: Study of hair contradicts Inca informants of 16th century. Willing sacrifices from Inca nobility, or terrorized peasant children?
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