Apr 28, 2018 09:13 PM
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Largest child sacrifice in history found in ancient mass grave in Peru
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/226399...n-peru.htm
EXCERPT: Archaeologists say that skeletal remains of more than 140 children and 200 baby llamas they found in Peru could be proof of the largest child sacrifice in history. The children and baby llamas sacrifice are predicted to have taken place around 550 years ago at the pre-Columbian burial site known as Las Llamas.
[...] The team, headed by Gabriel Prieto of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and John Verano of Tulane University, found that both the children and baby llamas suffered cuts to their sternum and they also have dislocation on their ribs. Their chests were believed to have been ripped apart to specifically get their hearts. [...] Prieto believes the children were offering to the gods to stop the floods brought by the El Niño.
MORE: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/226399...n-peru.htm
Mysterious Lost Tree
https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/frankl...st-flower/
https://daily.jstor.org/americas-mysterious-lost-tree/
EXCERPTS: . . . Sadly, the Franklin tree (so named in honor of Benjamin Franklin) is extinct in the wild. Franklinia, a member of the tea family (Theaceae), was first described by the father and son colonial plant explorers John and William Bartram in 1765 [...] Had this species not been brought into cultivation through the efforts of intrepid plant explorers and botanical gardens, it would have disappeared from the face of the earth, without a trace.
. . . Franklinia only exists in cultivated places like the Arboretum [...] In William Bartram’s 1791 Travels, he wrote: “We never saw it grow in any other place, nor have I ever since seen it growing wild, in all my travels, from Pennsylvania to Point Coupe, on the banks of the Mississippi, which must be allowed a very singular and unaccountable circumstance; at this place there are two or three acres of ground where it grows plentifully.” The last person to observe it in the wild, as researcher Keith Stewart Thomson related in American Scientist, was collector John Lyon in 1803. At the Fort Barrington site, where once there were acres, six or eight individuals remained.
So where did this lost tree come from? Was it a remnant of some primeval forest? Were its seeds dropped by migratory birds? Maybe it isn’t a native tree at all? Botanist Gayther L. Plummer explains in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society that there are many clues pointing to this theory, such as it growing better in cooler climates than Georgia’s, and its lack of distribution. It may have been imported by the French in the seventeenth century, or transported on a West African slave ship. With no other Franklinias identified anywhere on Earth, the mystery remains....
MORE: https://daily.jstor.org/americas-mysterious-lost-tree/
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/226399...n-peru.htm
EXCERPT: Archaeologists say that skeletal remains of more than 140 children and 200 baby llamas they found in Peru could be proof of the largest child sacrifice in history. The children and baby llamas sacrifice are predicted to have taken place around 550 years ago at the pre-Columbian burial site known as Las Llamas.
[...] The team, headed by Gabriel Prieto of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and John Verano of Tulane University, found that both the children and baby llamas suffered cuts to their sternum and they also have dislocation on their ribs. Their chests were believed to have been ripped apart to specifically get their hearts. [...] Prieto believes the children were offering to the gods to stop the floods brought by the El Niño.
MORE: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/226399...n-peru.htm
Mysterious Lost Tree
https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/frankl...st-flower/
https://daily.jstor.org/americas-mysterious-lost-tree/
EXCERPTS: . . . Sadly, the Franklin tree (so named in honor of Benjamin Franklin) is extinct in the wild. Franklinia, a member of the tea family (Theaceae), was first described by the father and son colonial plant explorers John and William Bartram in 1765 [...] Had this species not been brought into cultivation through the efforts of intrepid plant explorers and botanical gardens, it would have disappeared from the face of the earth, without a trace.
. . . Franklinia only exists in cultivated places like the Arboretum [...] In William Bartram’s 1791 Travels, he wrote: “We never saw it grow in any other place, nor have I ever since seen it growing wild, in all my travels, from Pennsylvania to Point Coupe, on the banks of the Mississippi, which must be allowed a very singular and unaccountable circumstance; at this place there are two or three acres of ground where it grows plentifully.” The last person to observe it in the wild, as researcher Keith Stewart Thomson related in American Scientist, was collector John Lyon in 1803. At the Fort Barrington site, where once there were acres, six or eight individuals remained.
So where did this lost tree come from? Was it a remnant of some primeval forest? Were its seeds dropped by migratory birds? Maybe it isn’t a native tree at all? Botanist Gayther L. Plummer explains in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society that there are many clues pointing to this theory, such as it growing better in cooler climates than Georgia’s, and its lack of distribution. It may have been imported by the French in the seventeenth century, or transported on a West African slave ship. With no other Franklinias identified anywhere on Earth, the mystery remains....
MORE: https://daily.jstor.org/americas-mysterious-lost-tree/