Pictures: Human-Sacrifice Chamber Discovered in Peru

John Roach ^ | July 30, 2010 | John Roach

[Little Bill]

A Site to Die For

Photograph courtesy National Archaeological Museum of Brüning, Peru.

Found in Peru within a chamber used for an ancient human-sacrifice rite called the presentation, this woman was likely an offering to the site, archaelogists say.

Announced last week, the 197-foot-long (60-meter-long) sacrificial chamber or passageway at the Huaca Bandera archaeological site belonged to the Moche culture, a pre-Columbian agricultural civilization that flourished on the north coast of Peru from about 100 B.C. to AD 800.

[Little Bill]

The Moche are my favorite culture in Peru. This is a long artical, collection of articals in fact. These photographs and narative demonstrate Socal Justice as understood by the Moche in detail.

[mnehring]

Early version of socialized medicine?

[Little Bill]

Brotherly love ping.

[Little Bill]

The Moche Priests used to drink the Blood of their victim's. Anemia cure?

[La Lydia]

Me too!! I have been enthralled by them since the Huaca Rajada discoveries back in the 80s. What a thriller. The jewelry and metalwork is beyond compare. And the Peruvians just keep coming up with better and better stuff. One of my projects is to go to Lambayeque (and of course Trujillo, etc.) and see the museums.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SmartInsight]

The article has a link to a related article, also very interesting:

Ancient “Human Sacrifices” Found in Peru, Expert Says

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080604-human-sacrifice.html

Three possible human sacrifice victims have been found at a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in Peru, an archaeologist says.

The apparently mutilated, partial skeletons (see photos) could overturn the peaceful reputation of the Pre-Ceramic period (3000 B.C. to 1800 B.C.) in the Andes mountains - a time generally seen as free of ritualized killing and warfare.

[SmartInsight]

Nice that you include those link to other interesting sites and topics.

[Gator113]

Some of the first followers of Dr. Timothy Francis Leary.

[Little Bill]

Got to the site, many, many. I don't know how NG feels about hot linking so I erred on the side of caution.

[Little Bill]

the peaceful reputation of the Pre-Ceramic period (3000 B.C. to 1800 B.C.) in the Andes mountains

It beats the hell out of me how any THINKING person can ever conclude that mankind has ever been peaceful.

[Little Bill]

Go to the Sipan Museum Site, outstanding.

[La Lydia]

I know. I have drooled over that since they put the site up. The Larco museum has some good Moche, too.

[bunkerhill7]

Pictures: Human-Sacrifice Chamber Discovered Under Iceland Volcano

[Little Bill]

I have been trying to get my Brother to take a trip to the Moche, Chimu area, I am not all that interested in the Inca, he is fluent in Spanish. I have been reading about this stuff for years and I am getting to the point where Pictures ain't good enough anymore.

[La Lydia]

I know how you feel. The Inca are interesting, but to me the Moche are intriguing, endlessly fascinating. My ideal trip would be a week in Lima to do a round of museums (I am also interested in the viceregal epoch), then a week or 10 days driving north, Chimbote, Trujillo and Chiclayo, etc., the arch sites in that area, Lambayeque. One of Donnan’s sites. Some of the Chimu stuff like Chan Chan, Sun and Moon. Maybe Ventarron. I guess all the Alva sites. Then back to Lima to re-view in light of what I’ve seen. I speak Spanish so I don’t foresee any problems. I’m trying to talk my sister into it, go figure. :)

[Little Bill]

Moche = Chimu = Inca to a large extent, with differences of course. To me there seems to be a cultural continuity, the history of which was suppressed by the Inca or so it seems to me. It all starts with the Moche.

[TexasRepublic]

Don’t miss the famous gold museum in Lima - I never saw so much. The same museum also has a fabulous gun collection.