Pre-Inca archaeological site yields 8 child sacrificial victims

[Judi Lynn]

Online News Editor
February 22, 2022

Lima, Feb 22 (EFE).- Archaeologists working at the excavations in Cajamarquilla, Peru’s second-largest pre-Inca city, have found two new bundles containing the remains of children apparently sacrificed to accompany into the afterlife the mummy of an upper class figure some 800 to 1,000 years ago.

Archaeologists Yomira Huaman and her professor, Pieter Van Dalen, of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) made the announcement of the find on Tuesday, confirming that these two new bundles of human remains raise the total number of such bundles at the dig to eight and making the site the oldest ever discovered in Peru containing a mass sacrifice of children.

“At first there were six, but in the following days two more were added. In all, that makes eight children and 12 adults who have been found associated with the Cajamarquilla mummy,” said Van Dalen during the presentation of the find at the Colegio Real de San Marcos, in downtown Lima.

Due to the evidence of violence on the remains of these people – and they are wrapped in cotton cloth and tied up with cords – the archaeologists’ preliminary hypothesis is that they were sacrificed to accompany the spirit of an upper class man, who had probably played an important social role in the ancient urban complex located on the periphery of the modern day Peruvian capital, some 21 kilometers (13 miles) from the city center.

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