Burned grave goods found in a Maya pyramid with charred royal bones included a carved pendant plaque of a human head.C. Halperin/Courtesy Antiquity
Posted on 04/23/2024 9:14:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In an ancient Maya temple-pyramid in Guatemala, archaeologists recently discovered the scorched bones of at least four adults who were likely members of a royal lineage. The burning signaled a deliberate and potentially public desecration of their remains, according to new research.
The bones offer a rare glimpse of intentional corpse destruction in Maya culture to commemorate dramatic political change.
All of the remains belonged to adults, and scientists identified three of the individuals as male. Two were between 21 and 35 years old, and one was between 40 and 60 years old, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Antiquity. Among the bones were thousands of burned objects — whole and in pieces — including body adornments made of greenstone (green minerals, including jade), pendants made from mammal teeth, shell beads, mosaics and weapons. Their richness and abundance hinted at the royal status of the people in the tomb...
Shrinkage and warping in the charred, broken bones suggested that they were burned in a massive inferno at a temperature of more than 1,472 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees Celsius). Radiocarbon dating — analyzing decay rates of carbon isotopes to determine an object's age — showed that the burning happened around 773 to 881. However, the analysis also revealed that the people had died decades earlier; possibly as much as a century before their skeletons were burned, suggesting that the fire was linked to events that unfolded long after their deaths, the scientists wrote...
Around the start of the ninth century when the remains were burned, carved Maya records described the deeds of a new ruler called Papmalil. The name did not appear in earlier carvings...
"It helps underscore the fact that Maya societies didn't end when their political systems changed," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Burned grave goods found in a Maya pyramid with charred royal bones included a carved pendant plaque of a human head.C. Halperin/Courtesy Antiquity
IOW, they dug up the skeletons of a past dynasty and burned them.
That show intense hate and is similar to what happened in England with Cromwell’s remains................
No, it shows what Biden is trying to do.
Cromwell? He was a military dictator and tyrant.
We first take down their statutes. How long before we dig them up and burn them? Washington? Jefferson?
Yes, but they desecrated his remains way after he was dead. It shows the utmost disrespect for a hated individual.
The Maya apparently did it to these peoples remains out of hate for their rule..............
Let’s dig ‘em up so we can kill ‘em again.
They were in the pool!
Tommy DeVito:
Hey Henry, Henry, hurry up will you? My mother’s gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us. Oh hey, Henry, Henry. Here’s an arm.
Henry Hill:
Very funny, guys.
Tommy DeVito:
Hey, here’s a leg. Here’s a wing.
Tommy DeVito:
Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or do you still go for the old hearts and lungs?
Bidenomics
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"likely members of a royal lineage"
See something, say something, get the treatment!
There's nothing new under the Sun.
Communists took over.
… and the guy he beat, what was he?!?
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