Archaeology reports: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—New Scientist reports that Melanie Miller of the University of Otago and her colleagues detected traces of five psychoactive chemicals on a collection of drug paraphernalia discovered in a rock shelter in southwestern Bolivia. The rock shelter is thought to have been a funerary enclosure where members of the Tiwanaku state may…
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Burials in Bolivia’s ‘Forest Islands’ Offer Insights Into Early South Americans
Barbara Fraser reports for Discovery: Charred earth, shells, bones and human burials found in mounds on a plain in northern Bolivia are offering scientists new clues about the earliest known inhabitants of the southwestern Amazon. The remains, excavated from raised areas known as “forest islands” on the Llanos de Moxos, an extensive savanna, show the…
MSU was given a mummy from Bolivia in 1890. Now the university is returning it.
By RJ Wolcott and Sarah Lehr, for the Lansing State Journal: Museum. “It’s the ethical thing to do, and it’s consistent with the United Nation’s treaty on the rights of indigenous people.” The mummified remains were donated to the university in 1890 by Fenton McCreery, whose father, William, was then United States consul to Chile. The body was…
To comprehend Tiwanaku people: Anthropologist Plots New Use for Motion-Capture Technology
Tess Eyrich reports for University of California Riverside: Anthropologist Plots New Use for Motion-Capture Technology UCR bioarchaeologist Sara Becker plans to use the cutting-edge technique to document traditional labors of indigenous Andean people RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Jar Jar Binks and Gollum: Two characters hailing from entirely disparate cinematic universes, yet linked in perpetuity by…
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