Plomo Mummy

The replica of the Plomo Mummy on display at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago, Chile.
The Enterratorio where the mummy was found, at the secondary summit of El Plomo, 10 m left of the frozen lake. (Altitude 5,400 m)
The Adoratorio near the site where the mummy was found. (Altitude 5,200 m)

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

References

  1. ↑ 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. PMC 1911799. PMID 6391593.
  2. ↑ Tierney, Patrick (1990). The highest altar: unveiling the mystery of human sacrifice. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140139747.
  3. ↑ Fuenzalida, Humberto (1959). "Historia del hallazgo" (PDF). Boletin Del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. XXVII: 4.
  4. ↑ Mouat, Francisco (September 2014). "Breve Biografía de la Doctora Grete Mostny (1914 -1991)" (PDF). Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Chile. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ 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. PMC 4543117. PMID 26345378.
  6. ↑ Clark, Liesl (November 24, 1998). "Ice Mummies of the Inca". pbs.org. Retrieved 24 July 2012.

Further reading

  • Aufderheide, Arthur C. (2010). The scientific study of mummies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521177351. 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. (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. JSTOR 25767002.
  • 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" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, History of the find]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 3–7.
  • Mostny, G. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Estado de conservación del conjunto arqueológico" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, State of conservation of the archaeological site]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 9–13.
  • Jeldes, F.; Prunes, L.; Merello, R.; Hoces, A.; Mosella, L.; Pizzi, T.; Tobar, T.; Vargas, Alfredo B.; Ortuzar, Elsa R. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Protocolos de Antropología Física" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, Protocols of Physical Anthropology]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 15–28.
  • Mostny, G.; Briinner, A.; Oberhauser, F.; Fuhrmann, P.; Gaillard, M. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Protocolos de Arqueología" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, Protocols of Archeology]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 29–81.
  • Krakl, T. L.; González, F. O. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, El cerro El Plomo" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, El Cerro El Plomo]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 83–107.
  • Mostny, G. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Los Incas en Chile" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, The Incas in Chile]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 108–12.
  • Mostny, G. (1957). "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo, Conclusiones" [The Mummy of Cerro El Plomo, Conclusions]. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 27: 114–9.
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