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Remains of 140 children found in Peru, pointing to world’s largest ancient child sacrifice


by Marwa Eltagouri April 27 at 12:37 AM Email the author

A view of the city of Trujillo between the mountains and the desert in northern Peru. (iStock)
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 140 children on the northern coast of Peru in what appears to have been the largest instance of mass child sacrifice in the Americas — if not the entire world, according to an exclusive report from National Geographic.

The macabre discovery was made on a low bluff just a thousand feet from the Pacific Ocean, amid cinder-block residential compounds in La Libertad outside Trujillo, Peru’s third-largest city. It’s estimated that the children — and 200 young llamas — were sacrificed about 550 years ago, when the area was home to the pre-Columbian Chimú civilization. The Chimú was the second-largest empire in Peru before Spanish colonization, next to the Incas, who were also known to sacrifice children during rituals.

Until now, the largest incident of mass child sacrifice was believed to have occurred in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan — modern-day Mexico City — where 42 children’s bodies had been discovered.

Ongoing scientific investigations into the Peru site, formally called Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, are being carried out by an international team funded by the National Geographic Society. The team is led by Gabriel Prieto of the National University of Trujillo and John Verano of Tulane University.

“I, for one, never expected it,” Verano told the magazine about the magnitude of the discovery.

“And I don’t think anyone else would have, either,” he added.

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Excavations at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas began in 2011, when the remains of 42 children and 76 llamas were found at a 3,500-year-old temple nearby. The excavations continued through 2016, and resulted in the discovery of more than 140 sets of child remains and 200 juvenile llamas, according to National Geographic. Items found in the burials, such as ropes, are radiocarbon dated to between 1400 and 1450, toward the end of the Chimú Empire’s rule, before they were conquered by the Incas.

It’s estimated that the children ranged from about 5 to 14 years old, with the majority between the ages of 8 and 12, according to the magazine. The llamas were all less than 18 months old and were buried facing east, toward the Andes.

The children’s skulls are stained with red, cinnabar-based pigment, evidence that they were sacrificed in ritual killings, as the pigment was used in ceremonies. Cuts to both the children and llamas’ skeletal remains — particularly to the sternum and rib bone — suggest their chests were cut open, likely so that their hearts could be removed, according to National Geographic.

Researchers and anthropologists are now trying to understand the motivation behind the large-scale sacrifice, and why the burial pits combined children with baby llamas.

“When people hear about what happened and the scale of it, the first thing they always ask is ‘why?’ ” Prieto told National Geographic.

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Ancient Peruvian empire sacrificed 140 children, archaeologists say
Associated Press Published 6:16 a.m. ET April 28, 2018
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LIMA, Peru — Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice.

The pre-Columbian burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were between the ages of five and 14 when they were ritually sacrificed during a ceremony about 550 years ago, experts who led the excavation told The Associated Press on Friday.

The site, located near the modern day city of Trujillo, also contained the remains of 200 young llamas apparently sacrificed on the same day.

The burial site was apparently built by the ancient Chimu empire. It is thought the children were sacrificed as floods caused by the El Nino weather pattern ravaged the Peruvian coastline.

“They were possibly offering the gods the most important thing they had as a society, and the most important thing is children because they represent the future,” said Gabriel Prieto, an archaeology professor at Peru’s National University of Trujillo, who has led the excavation, along with John Verano of Tulane University.

“Llamas were also very important because these people had no other beasts of burden, they were a fundamental part of the economy,” Prieto said, adding that the children were buried facing the sea, while the llamas faced the Andes Mountains to the east.

Excavation work at the burial site started in 2011, but news of the findings was first published on Thursday by National Geographic, which helped finance the investigation.

Prieto said that besides the bones, researchers also found footprints that have survived rain and erosion. The small footprints indicate the children were marched to their deaths from Chan Chan, an ancient city a mile away from Las Llamas, he said.

Verano said the children’s skeletons contained lesions on their breastbones, which were probably made by a ceremonial knife. Dislocated ribcages suggest that whoever was performing the sacrifices may have been trying to extract the children’s hearts.

Jeffrey Quilter, the director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, described it as a “remarkable discovery.”

This photo, provided by National Geographic, shows how the face of this child was painted with a red cinnabar-based pigment, at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site near Trujillo, Peru. (Photo: Gabriel Prieto, AP)

In an email, Quilter told the AP the site provides “concrete evidence” that large-scale sacrifices of children occurred in ancient Peru.

“Reports of very large sacrifices are known from other parts of the world, but it is difficult to know if the numbers are exaggerated or not,” Quilter wrote.

Quilter is heading a team of scientists who will analyze DNA samples from the children’s remains to see if they were related and figure out which areas of the Chimu empire the sacrificed youth came from.

Several ancient cultures in the Americas practiced human sacrifices including the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Incas, who conquered the Chimu empire in the late 15th century. But the mass sacrifice of children is something that has rarely been documented.

The Las Llamas site is located in a shantytown and has been fenced off to stop illegal developers from building homes on it.

Prieto says the site shows how in Peru history can be just around the corner.

 

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Under the PAP, we already have one of the highest child and youth suicide rates in the world. Meanwhile, nothing is done to halt this by the party. Ironically, many MPs are good Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus.

This is a form of Human sacrifice.

Surely our children deserve a happy childhood and hope for the future? Surely pressures at school could be managed thru proper directives?

 

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Under the PAP, we already have one of the highest child and youth suicide rates in the world. Meanwhile, nothing is done to halt this by the party. Ironically, many MPs are good Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus.

This is a form of Human sacrifice.

Surely our children deserve a happy childhood and hope for the future? Surely pressures at school could be managed thru proper directives?

 

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...than-140-children-who-were-sacrificed-in-peru

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Remains Of More Than 140 Children Who Were Sacrificed Found In Peru

April 27, 20184:36 PM ET
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Buried together, a child and a llama were part of a mass sacrificial killing that included more than 140 children and over 200 llamas in the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site in coastal Peru near Trujillo.

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Archaeologists discovered the remains of more than 140 children in Peru, children who they believe were sacrificed because of heavy rains.

Their skeletons were found on an excavated site formally known as Huanchaquito-Las Llamas — ground that was controlled by the Chimú Empire some 550 years ago, reported National Geographic in an exclusive published on Thursday.

Researchers believe that both boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 14 were killed by expert hands. The victims appear to be from different ethnic groups and were brought to the bluff from faraway places in the Chimús' vast empire.

Peruvian archaeologist Gabriel Prieto, who grew up in the area, was excavating an ancient temple there in 2011 when people who lived near coastal dunes told him they were seeing bones.

"We started the excavation the same day," Prieto told NPR from Peru. "I remember in the first hour or two hours we found like 12 or 13 complete bodies and from there we knew we were in an important site and that we had to call other archaeologists because it was beyond our possibilities at the moment."

Preserved in dry sand for more than 500 years, more than a dozen bodies were found by archaeologists. The researchers reported the "remains were of children, ranging in age from approximately five to fourteen years."

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Prieto, a National Geographic Explorer and professor, said his work there resumed in 2014 with grants from the National Geographic Society. He and John Verano, a professor of anthropology at Tulane University, led the research.


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They found that these were no ordinary remains. Many of the children had faces that were caked with red pigment, sternums with cuts and ribs that had been dislocated — suggesting that their hearts had been removed. The researchers also found the remains of 200 juvenile llamas that also appear to have died in ritual killings.

Footprints of barefoot children, adults in sandals, young llamas and dogs have led the researchers to construct a theory of their demise. And it's rooted in a layer of dried m&d at the eastern part of the 7,500-square-foot excavation site.

The researchers believe that heavy rains and flooding caused by El Niño weather patterns prompted the massive sacrifice. It would have had devastating consequences on Chimú infrastructure, which was built for arid conditions and featured a network of canals.

Prieto said the damage would ultimately have threatened those in power. "Anything that would affect their economic or political stability, they would take advantage of whatever resources they had possibly to control this kind of situation."

The discovery has left archaeologists captivated. Vanderbilt University anthropology professor Tom Dillehay, who has not worked on the project, told NPR that the Andes has a legacy of human sacrifice but "not at this intensity or scale."

He said that the children appear to have died as a sacrifice, as researchers concluded. "There is no other explanation for the accumulation of so many children," said Dillehay. "You could relate it to warfare and perhaps gathering up children — but why sacrifice so many animals as well?"

But he is skeptical of what prompted their death, saying that many archaeologists and geologists are "trigger happy," often blaming El Niño as the cause of catastrophes. "I think we need to be more cautious, unless they have solid geological evidence," he said, adding that the m&d could indicate there was, say, a tsunami. "If a highly localized event such as El Niño impacted the community, then why do you need to stretch out several hundred miles to bring children in?"

Jonathan Haas, curator emeritus at The Field Museum, disagreed. "The layer of m&d indicates that it's raining. And it never rains in the coast of Peru except during fairly traumatic El Niño events," he told NPR from Peru. Because the infrastructure was built for an arid region, "when it rains, it wipes out the entire agricultural system."


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Haas also noted that the sheer number of sacrificed children shows that this ancient society wasn't benevolent. "It goes to show the power the rulers had to take children away from their parents and kill them. That's a lot of state power."

Prieto said the researchers will continue to learn about the victims through DNA and biological analysis. They will submit a report about the discovery to a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, reported National Geographic.

The discovery offers a new insight into Peru's history apart from the geoglyphs of Nazca Lines and the Inca culture represented at Machu Picchu, Prieto said. "Facing all these human remains and llama remains in very fragile conditions, surrounded by modern houses, it was really a feeling of responsibility that we were facing something important — that we need to record it in the best way possible to finally tell this story."

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