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johansen19

An Incan Feast Before Death | Science/AAAS | News - 0 views

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death Inca killed

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  • Now, a chemical analysis of four Incan mummies finds that children were fattened before being sacrificed
  • Andes have found shrines containing the frozen, mummified bodies of children adorned with necklaces, headdresses, and bracelets.
  • Others appear to have been left to die in the cold.
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  • 15-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, and a 6-year-old dubbed Lightning Girl because her corpse had been struck by lightning.
  • researchers found more sacrificed children on top of Argentina's Llullaillaco volcano: a
  • 15-year-old girl, a 7-
brenden2014

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maya medicine and Issues

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  • A hemorrhagic fever, which was called Cocoliztli,
  • Two epidemics of Cocoliztli, occurring in 1545 and 1576 respectively, killed a total of 13 million people.
  • Symptoms ranged from headache and fever to dementia, nodule formation, and bleeding from all orifices before eventual death. Interestingly, the more severe symptoms of Cocoliztli only affected the native inhabitants of Mesoamerica;
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  • here is no evidence supporting any single explanation for this dramatic population loss. The severe decrease may have been caused by decline in agriculture, social or political issues, or natural causes such as drought to name a few. Whatever the cause, it is certain that the Maya civilization had collapsed.
  • While there are obvious differences between the collapses during the Terminal Classic Period and the sixteenth century, both occurred during similar environmental conditions. Evidence indicates that during the years before both population declines, the region was facing a period of severe drought. As indicated by data from tree rings, a long drought happened from AD 700 to AD 900 that stretched as far north as the Southwestern United States
  • A hemorrhagic fever, which was called Cocoliztli,
  • Two epidemics of Cocoliztli, occurring in 1545 and 1576 respectively, killed a total of 13 million people.
  • Cocoliztli outbreaks
  • As is widely known, the Mayan people saw a significant loss in population starting around AD 770. There is no conclusive evidence indicating one specific cause of this collapse; most
  • likely, it was a combination of several contributing factors. Centuries later, Mesoamerica faced another widespread population decline in the 1500s. Again, it is nearly impossible t
  • pinpoint what caused this occurrence. The data indicate that disease may have been a causative factor in the Maya collapse, though the identity of the disease itself is a mystery
  • due to the lack of preserved human remains.
  • preep2019 on 04 Sep 13
     
    Tells about a fever that caused many deaths. 
mboardman

4 Possible Reasons For The Collapse of the Mayan Civilization - 0 views

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  • Most recently, scientists have turned their work towards the possibility of disease. The climate was humid and would have supported a host of parasitic activity. As the Mayan civilization grew and spread, disturbances would have occurred which could have placed the people in contact with parasites that would promote disease and death. If this were the case no member of the Mayans would have been spared. As with many diseases that attacked the human body, death can be a slow process dependent upon the strength and health of the individual attacked.
  • mboardman on 04 Sep 13
     
    disease for maya
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