Perhaps a pregnant woman who was believed to have lived more than a thousand years ago in the coastal area of Ecuador is part of sacrifice or ritual punishment, according to archaeologists who dug her remains in 2022.
In a study published last month by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Antiquities AssociationExperts detailed their analysis of the young remains of the young, which is called the 10th, which dates back between 771 and 953 AD. She was about 17 to 20 years old at the time of her death, and her hands and left leg were removed in or near the time of her death, the researchers said.
Drawing burial by Catherine Kelaki, plans that show lost elements (dark gray), turbulent elements (light gray), mascara site (cup) and suspension (squares). /Credit: Kathryn Kilacy/Cambridge University Press/Society for America Archaeology
Archaeologists found that her burial was important because she was pregnant at that time. The remains of the young woman showed a fracture of the skull and cut signs of her bones, which led them to assume that she had been sacrificed.
The researchers wrote: “The surrounding trauma, including cranial fracture, fracture on the bones of the hand, removal of the hands, the left leg, and other manipulation of the body that was sacrificed, is a rare event of coastal Ecuadorian peoples.”
Although the human sacrifice in coastal Ecuador is rare, the body and the lost ends indicate the importance of possible rituals.
Her eyes were covered with two hells. There was a large green clay stone nearly and many ceramic fragments on its forehead, according to the study. Spondylus mascara is found in the shape of a crescent, or mollusc shells, around the body.
It was also buried with Spondylus pendants, known as Chaquira, of various traditions and cultural periods.
Several artifacts, including Spondylus and beads buried with a pregnant woman who lived more than a thousand years ago in coastal Ecuador. / Credit: Cambridge University Press/ American Antiquities Association
Researchers said that the woman believes that she is part of the people of Mantino, who lived along the Ecuadorian coast and escaped from agriculture and the sea, but Al Ain covers were not consistent with Mantino’s model burial. The green stone is a link between death and fertility for the burial of Valvien, a different group of the coastal people that preceded the Mantino by about 2000 years, according to the experts. The mascara was usually associated with the practices of Valdivian.
“The accumulation of many artifacts required from a purposeful collection and arrangement before they were included in this burial,” the study said. “The interpretation of this burial should be seen in the end of these repeated assurances and relationships with the past to understand the causes of this mysterious burial.”
The researchers said that the burial also included a burning show in the chest cavity. However, such rituals were found later between 991-1025 AD, indicating that a woman’s grave has been reconsidered and may be used in other rituals.
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