May 03
JohnBurial, Mound, North America, Texas
ALTO, Texas — Following a winding highway, once known as part of the El Camino Real de los Tejas, southwest out of Alto, there is a variety of wild flowers and multiple historic markers dotting a trail leading to the Caddo Mounds state historic site — a place where a community of Caddo Indians thrived centuries before Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain.
The site, formerly owned and operated by the state park system, now is under the operation of the Texas Historical Commission, and Caddo Mounds Site Manager Jennifer Price said she is excited about the future of the location.
Caddo Mounds was first opened to the public in 1982, but the site had been explored and mapped by archaeologists since 1919, who have, since, uncovered many artifacts and details of this particular group of Caddos known as the Hasinai.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6986169.html
Apr 21
JohnBurial, Chile, South America
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
April 13, 2010
Poison-laced drinking water killed some of the world’s oldest mummies, which are found in the harsh northern deserts of Chile, a new study says.
Arsenic, which occurs in high levels in drinking water in Chile’s northern Camarones Valley (see map), the deadly element likely poisoned the coastal Chinchorro people for centuries, starting at least 7,000 years ago, mummy-hair analyses show.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/100412-chile-oldest-mummies-poison-arsenic/
Apr 04
JohnAtacama, Burial, South America
Andean mummies reveal arsenic poisoning afflicted people in northern Chile for thousands of years, a hair analysis shows.
In the current Journal of Archaeological Science, a team led by Bernardo Arriaza of Chile’s Universidad de Tarapaca analyzed hair from 45 Andean mummies taken from ten sites some 7,000 to 600 years old. The mummies dried in Chile’s Atacama desert region, one of the most parched regions on Earth. They were deliberately mummified with sticks, reeds and clay, given wigs and distinctive caps.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/03/andean-mummies-afflicted-with-arsenic-poison/1
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