For Decades, Scientists Thought They Knew How This Inca Child Died. They Were Wrong
In 1954, looters found the mummified remains of a small boy. Soon, archaeologists took over and eventually concluded that the boy, about 8 years old, likely died of hypothermia during an Inca ceremony in the high Andes, about 17,716 feet (5,400 meters) above sea level. According to a recently published Science Advances paper on their findings, a comprehensive analysis overturns previous assumptions about how these Inca children passed.
- ▪In 1954, looters found the mummified remains of a small boy.
- ▪Soon, archaeologists took over and eventually concluded that the boy, about 8 years old, likely died of hypothermia during an Inca ceremony in the high Andes, about 17,716 feet (5,400 meters) above sea level.
- ▪According to a recently published Science Advances paper on their findings, a comprehensive analysis overturns previous assumptions about how these Inca children passed.
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In 1954, looters found the mummified remains of a small boy. Soon, archaeologists took over and eventually concluded that the boy, about 8 years old, likely died of hypothermia during an Inca ceremony in the high Andes, about 17,716 feet (5,400 meters) above sea level. But things might have played out very differently than we believed.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000789778","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"science","SECTION":"human-history","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"human-history","TAGS":"archaeology,inca","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); In addition to the boy, dubbed the Boy of Cerro El…
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