Olive Grove: Dozens of burial tombs buried in Chile reveal an ancient connection | Science
A few decades before La Serena (Northern Chile) in 1536, Diego de Almagro and his people were still buried with fires. Now, a Multidisciplinary study He studied the remnants of camels. They worked to ensure that animals are indigenous, from their bones to their genes, through their teeth tartar. They started burying them together in the 1000 year of this era and when did you stop doing YetIt considered the flame as a normal load beast and began to bury their own burial on the joint graves.
In 2014, when the Pan -American Highway was unraveling, workers found human remains. An excavation began before eliminating the progress story. The Chile National Monuments Council has saved an area of 380 meters up to 50 meters. The Archaeological Scientist of the El Oliver Foundation Paaola Gonzalez team is the surface probes, which is now found. “Archaeological rescue between two of the eight funeral areas, 2015 and 2017,” the researcher said. They took five containers from there, with 1,500 boxes. 56 camels and more than 200 human bodies are very relevant. They are still years old to evaluate everything.
One of the first fruits given by Oliver, four kilometers in the north of La Serena and 2,500 meters of Pacific, a study of camels buried with humans. “Whether there are domestic or wild animals, Guanako in this case, because there is a lot of Guanako in the forest in our area,” said Gonzalez. Science has demonstrated fires (Lama Glam) Come from Guanako (Long Guaniko) And there are many breeding processes in many Andian areas.
The first task they did was to analyze the animals. In the process of breeding, fires are dwarf compared to Guanacos. “But it is not definitive,” says the archaeologist. Then they continued with the isotopic analysis of the bone, which was an indirect method to know What did you eat in the past. Gonzalez adds that they have mixed foods associated with nitrogen or carbon elements and that they have a mixed diet of wild plants, “but also C4 plants, which are a distinct chemical indicator of corn.” But this didn’t seem to be the perfect test, so they are now looking for pathologies. “Some of these animals have a disease called polydactly (it has another finger (the fires are Articodial, which is two fingers in their legs), which causes the animals listed, but they have reached an adult life.” Only a domestic animal that wool achieve, but what is listed is worth getting it.
However, they have done two more tests. One is to look at the remnants of the teeth of his food. Previous studies have already shown Fossil bacteria of tartar They can be a window for the past; Another, genetic analysis. They found the residue of maize and pumpkin or pumpkin. “ArchaeoBoteni experts confirmed that the pumpkin was boiled, so they gave it as porridge,” Gonzalez details. Last Exam, Genetic Analysis, Copenhagen University (Denmark) was conducted by Michael Westbury of the genetic scientist and study of the study. This is a perfect proof. “He decided that these animals were Gwanico Chilensis. Interestingly, these fires have not come alone, but to me are already clear, the high -liberties population is the arrival of the population, ”it ends. These shepherds brought the practice buried next to their fires.
Patricio Lopez from the Natural and Cultural History Museum of Atacama Desert (Chile) and the first author of the New Study, argued that “there is no information to support the local breeding process.” Although it is not dismissed as a process On-siteThey have to review the temporary order of many thousands of years, they are needed to complete the process. “In the special case of El Oliver, the presence of pet single camels, in which case you are called, we are associated with the northwest groups of North Chile and/or Argentina with knowledge and communication.”
The national state of fires and its origin is crucial to understand the well -understood of joint burial. According to radiocarbon dating, they started in 1090. The first thing to draw attention to archaeologists is that the bodies, humans and animals, in the lateral fetus state, are lying. “They look after each other, describe these symmetrical people between human and camel, this position is not completely anatomical, that is, camels, that is, this position of this lateral cube will bend the same to the man when he dies.” For her, she recognizes some luck in the merger and accompanying of the identities; if we are looking for something to mobilize it, I will tell you that it will be a companion for man. ” Although he remembered that archaeological science did not give only a few things, “there is a very noticeable attempt to humanize human-love.”
When the land of Iz is conquered (between 1440 and 1470, according to many dates), fires and burial of humans end. Ills used them as cargo animals and they should not have symbolism they did for El Oliver inhabitants. In fact, they bury their dead in their sisters, which is a kind of sarcophagus on the old joint tombs.
Animal burial records, especially in spite of dogs or mummification, As they did in ancient EgyptIn other cultures of the past, there are no cases of common burial. And with horses or a few who are in the role of being buried in the most Sacrifices events. There is nothing in Olive Grov. And not only 56 fires recovered in Olive Grov. There are many other areas to dig and, fortunately, the Chile government has ended the road.
