02-03-2022, 05:47 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022...y-suggests
Invasion. Disease. Death. The 16th-century Europeans arriving in Peru brought with them all manner of havoc and destruction.
But they did not only pillage the living. They also looted graves.
Now researchers say local people came up with a somewhat macabre response to restore disturbed remains – by threading spines on to sticks.
“The idea is that when [the Europeans were looting], they have to go through textile bundles that have these bodies, and so they’re ripping textile bundles, and taking out the gold and silver, and bodies are coming apart,” said Dr Jacob Bongers from the University of East Anglia, lead author of the study.
“Then local peoples, Chincha peoples, are coming back, seeing this, and trying to put their dead back together.”
When I first saw the headline, I thought, "This sounds rather gruesome ". It sounded to me like it was some form of torture: perhaps they were executing people by shoving sticks through people's spines, However, on reading the article, it's clear that that's not what it was at all - and, on the contrary, it just shows how much they cared.
Still, it's rather sad that they had to go through their loved ones' graves being disturbed like this .
Invasion. Disease. Death. The 16th-century Europeans arriving in Peru brought with them all manner of havoc and destruction.
But they did not only pillage the living. They also looted graves.
Now researchers say local people came up with a somewhat macabre response to restore disturbed remains – by threading spines on to sticks.
“The idea is that when [the Europeans were looting], they have to go through textile bundles that have these bodies, and so they’re ripping textile bundles, and taking out the gold and silver, and bodies are coming apart,” said Dr Jacob Bongers from the University of East Anglia, lead author of the study.
“Then local peoples, Chincha peoples, are coming back, seeing this, and trying to put their dead back together.”
When I first saw the headline, I thought, "This sounds rather gruesome ". It sounded to me like it was some form of torture: perhaps they were executing people by shoving sticks through people's spines, However, on reading the article, it's clear that that's not what it was at all - and, on the contrary, it just shows how much they cared.
Still, it's rather sad that they had to go through their loved ones' graves being disturbed like this .
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