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<< Text Pages >> Chiribaya Alta - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 06 October 2010  Page Views: 7178

Multi-periodSite Name: Chiribaya Alta
Country: Peru Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Ilo
Latitude: 17.63S  Longitude: 71.29W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Settlement.
1000 - 1300 AD. Settlement surrounded by an embankment and defensive ditch. House compounds inside the perimeter and cemeteries.

The location is only approximate.

Note: Researcher links mummy's tattoo with *acupuncture*.
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Re: Mummy tattoos hint at ancient Andean acupuncture by Runemage on Wednesday, 06 October 2010
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Really interesting to see the different "ink" constituents used here, soot for decoration and likely herbs for the medicinal ones. Still must have hurt though - ouch!

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Mummy tattoos hint at ancient Andean acupuncture by bat400 on Wednesday, 06 October 2010
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In the current Journal of Archeological Science, a team led by Maria Anna Pabst of Austria's Medical University of Graz, "describe tattoos from two body areas of a 1000 year old mummy from Chiribaya Alta in Southern Peru." The team looked at the tattoos on the hands and neck of the mummy using various microscopic techniques.

"Tattoos displaying decorative elements are found widely on prehistoric mummies all over the world," notes the study:

The oldest known tattoos date from 6000 B.C. from the Chinchorros culture. They show a thin pencil mustache tattooed on the upper lip of a male adult.

The female mummy in the study is much more recent, from about 1,000 B.C., and bore tattooed animals like "birds, apes, reptiles in addition to symbols." Rings were tattooed on four of the fingers with soot.

Most intriguing to the researchers, 12 overlapping circles tattooed on the woman's neck resemble "therapeutic" tattoo spots corresponding to acupuncture points used to relieve neck pain. A 1999 study (not without disagreement) suggested similar therapeutic tattoos adorn the famous Tyrolean iceman mummy, Otzi.

Summarizing the possible medical intention lying behind the circle tattoos, Pabst assumes local problems of the upper spine or headaches as possible reasons for treatment by the tattooing. In contrast with the soot used in the decorative parts of the tattoos, partially pyrolyzed plant material, probably burned herbs, was used for the therapeutic neck tattoos.

Whether acupuncture pointers or not, the study shows that the pre-Inca population of Peru did differentiate between decorative tattoos and others.

For more, see http://www.archaeologydaily.com.
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