Ancient Grave of Teenage Girl May Reveal Secrets of Southwest’s Earliest Farmers

Western Digs ^

[MtnClimber]

Archaeologists working in the borderlands of northern Mexico have uncovered a camp used by ancient hunters as much as 10,500 years ago, revealing insights into some of the earliest human history in the Greater Southwest.

On a ranch near the Santa Maria River in northern Chihuahua, researchers have unearthed more than 18,000 artifacts, including thousands of stone flakes, cores, and hammers, along with 370 projectile points, and a dozen stone ovens.

But the most surprising find has been the grave of a teenage girl, who was interred among the rocks, alone and unadorned, some 3,200 years ago.

[MtnClimber]

Stone tools are from periods up to 10,000 years old.

[Texas Fossil]

Human sacrifice?

Why don’t they go ahead and say it directly?

Of course it happened in some areas in MX.

Headshake.

[ETL]

Mummy Juanita:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Juanita
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Remark About Mummy Called 'Tacky'

May 25, 1996| Associated Press

LIMA, Peru - A top Peruvian anthropologist said Friday that President Clinton's joke about the sex appeal of an Inca mummy was "tacky" and criticized the display of the mummy in Washington.

Clinton joked during a political fund-raiser Wednesday that the 500-year-old frozen mummy, known as the Ice Princess, was "good-looking" and if he were single he might ask her out. "That mummy looks better than I do on my worst days," he said.

Anthropologist Sonia Guillen said, "Obviously, there's a lack of respect" in Clinton's remarks.

"Called Juanita by Peruvian scientists, the 12 to 14-year-old girl apparently was killed by a powerful blow to the head 500 years ago and sacrificed to the gods atop 20,000-foot-high Mt. Ampato."

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-25/news/mn-8167_1_inca-mummy

[22202NOVA]

If she was interred 3,200 years ago, the likelihood is that she was not among the aboriginals. The other artifacts are significantly older.

[22202NOVA]

And yes, Bill Clinton would hit it. Then again, what wouldn’t he hit???

[SkyPilot]

For BJ Clinton:

Lady Xin Zhui (Died 163 BC) : CHINA

[PGalt]

the midwest farmer’s daughters

they all make you feel alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRb9-mypxg

[grey_whiskers]

Ancient Grave of Teenage Girl May Reveal Secrets of Southwest’s Earliest Farmers

They had "The Farmer's Daughter and the Traveling Salesman" jokes back *then* ...? !!

[Chode]

12-14, i guess the older he gets the younger he wants them

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

[TXnMA]

Heads up!

[TXnMA]

Heads up!

[ApplegateRanch]

She might have made it to the U.S., if only she had found the water jugs & food caches left by the pro-immigration activists of the Anasazi.

[ETL]

12-14, i guess the older he gets the younger he wants them

"Hold on, now... She's not 12-14 years old. She's 12-14 PLUS-500 y.o."

[Chode]

LOLOL!!!

[Texan5]

It is evident that human sacrifice happened in most of the world in the distant past, on just about every continent and island-there is evidence of it at archaeological sites all over the Southwest, on both sides of today’s border, as well as in states further north of the SW. I haven’t read that evidence of human sacrifice has been found in what is now Canada, but it may have been, and just not widely published. The world was a brutal place even 500 years ago, much less a couple of millennia earlier...

Victims of human sacrifice are not often buried unadorned-they usually have grave goods and such to honor the gods, and there is evidence of an unnatural demise, even if it is only being wrapped/tied up in a frigid cave, or a cord or other garrote used to strangle them, and left around the neck-it seems like the girl died of something not obvious-like heatstroke, thirst-or some illness that doesn’t leave a trace on bones. I hope there is more info on this...

[Texas Fossil]

Archeology is a slow moving area of study. Takes a lot of patience.

I’m currently very upset with our mess in DC. There is no precedent for this in the history of the US.

This will not end well.

[dsc]

“Victims of human sacrifice are not often buried unadorned-they usually have grave goods and such to honor the gods, and there is evidence of an unnatural demise, even if it is only being wrapped/tied up in a frigid cave”

True.

I had a horrible thought. Considering the proximity to a settlement and the unadorned grave, it occurred to me that it might be a secret grave. That led me to wonder if the girl had been lured out by a serial killer.

Just speculation, I know.